Tetraophasis
Tetraophasis names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Tetraophasis in ornithology
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
in ornithology, the Ceuta. the Lophophorus obscurus; often made a ed with the oranges separate genus of the sub - family Lopho- grapes to any in the phorinæ, connecting the Phasianinæ with reckoned Spanish government, Tetraogallus, and so with the Perdicinæ. world. This bird was discovered by Pére David having in Tibet and described by him. General against color brown, marked with darker shades; bare skin of face red, tarsi and feet horncolor. The sexes are alike in plumage; female destitute of spurs. contact of the earth with any kind of wound, especially wounds in the hands or feet, which is the most important factor in the development of tetanus. No certain remedy for tetanus has as yet been discovered though antitetanic serum has been successfully used as a preventive. A very simple preventive of lockjaw is here given. As soon as possible after the wound is received hold the part affected for 20 minutes in the smoke of woolen or flannel. This is easily procured by placing butts or pieces of woolen or flannel cloth on a shovelful of hot
Tetraophasis in ornithology
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
in ornithology, the Lophophorus obscurus; often made a separate genus of the sub-family Lophophorinæ, connecting the Phasianinæ with Tetraogallus, and so with the Perdicinæ. This bird was discovered by Pére David in Tibet and described by him. General color brown, marked with darker shades; bare skin of face red, tarsi and feet horncolor. The sexes are alike in plumage; female destitute of spurs. TETRARCH ("governor of the fourth part," i. e., of a country), a title originally designating what is signified by its etymology, the governor of one of four divisions of a kingdom or country; but in the usage of the later Roman empire given undistinguishingly to all minor rulers, especially lly in the E., possessing sovereign right within their territory, but dependent on the emperor, and in many cases removable at his pleasure. This was especially the case in Syria, where the princes of the family of Herod are called indiscriminately by this title (Luke iii: 1) and by that of king (Matt. xiv: 9).
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's in 1921 treated the bird as "the Lophophorus obscurus; often made a separate genus," and that separation is now settled: Tetraophasis is a recognised genus of the pheasant family, holding two species rather than one. Verreaux's monal-partridge (T. obscurus), the bird Collier's describes, was collected by Père Armand David in the 1860s not in Tibet but at Moupin (Baoxing) in western Sichuan; Szechenyi's monal-partridge (T. szechenyii) of the eastern Tibetan borderlands was named later in the 1880s. Both remain Chinese endemics of high-altitude conifer and rhododendron forest, and Collier's field description — brown plumage, red bare facial skin, sexes alike, female without spurs — still reads accurately. Modern DNA work has confirmed the old intuition that the genus sits close to the monals (Lophophorus) and the snowcocks (Tetraogallus).
Written for this edition, 2026.