Bambusicola thoracica

Bambusicola thoracica

(food materia medica by Wang Ying)

[synonyms] shanjunzi (a collection of Materia Medica), jitouhu (a collection of Dongpo poems), mudslides (compendium), bamboo partridge (Chinese animal atlas? Birds).

[source] it is the meat of bamboo chicken.

[animal morphology] bamboo chicken

The body length is about 29 cm. The mouth is short and brown. The iris is light brown. The head, neck, chin and throat were chestnut red. The upper body is mostly olive brown; each feather is marked or slightly decorated with black brown wormwood like spots, and the top of the head is mixed with a few brown spots; the forehead and upper back are stained with gray, and the eyebrows are blue gray, extending back a few times to the back; the back has chestnut spots, and there are small white spots, and only slightly decorated with chestnut spots after the back; the shoulder feathers are slightly the same as the back, but there are more white spots; the third-order flying feathers have large chestnut brown round spots; the inner wings have large chestnut brown spots The lateral covert and flight feathers are covered with brownish yellow wavy lines, the outer part turns dark brown, and the outer edge of the primary flight feather is light chestnut; the central tail feather is light cinnamon chestnut, densely mixed with black brown beetle like lines, and runs through 5-6 light cinnamon chestnut transverse spots; the outer tail feather turns pure cinnamon chestnut; the chest is blue gray, extending to the shoulders, forming a neck ring, and the lower edge is chestnut red; the abdomen and flank are brown, thick in the front and light in the back, The two flanks are densely mixed with dark brown spots, and the covert under the tail is brown with chestnut. Feet and toes yellowish brown, male with long distance.

It lives in a hill or jungle. Good at lurking, quick and low. The male is aggressive. It feeds on fruits, seeds, tender leaves of plants and insects such as locusts, grasshoppers and termites. It is distributed in the mountainous areas of the provinces south of the Yangtze River.

[Xing Wei] Yilin zuanyao: "Gan, Wen. "

"Into the heart, spleen and liver. "

[functions and indications] 1. Materia medica: it is used to cure pheasant disease, kill insects, cook and cook. "

② Yilin zuanyao: "Buzhong. "

Chinese PinYin : Zhu Ji