Brown eared pheasant

Aviary with storks, Paignton, February 19th 2012.

Isn't it a Blue-eared?

For many years I though the different colours referred to the 'ears' not to the body colour of the 'eared' pheasants.:

Or, I've noticed, "Blue Eared-pheasant", which I quite like on clarity grounds.

It's brown because it's brown, blue ones are grey (if you see what I mean). Moreover the brown colour is graduated, darker at the head and paler near the tail, which is not shown in the photo; the blue-grey is much more uniform.
The 'ears' are always white, except of course in the white eared which hardly has 'ears' at all

Alan

Of course I'll take your word for it, though I can't see any Brown on this bird at all. The only easy one of these for me is the White Eared because its mostly White.

I wish to submit further evidence, Your Honour, in the form of Exhibit B. This is a photo taken of one of the pheasants in the same aviary less than 24 hours after mine above (Exhibit A) which My Learned Friend cordell21, who I have never met, posted a little before mine. I think there are a trio of these pheasants in this aviary, so there is a 3 to 1 chance that it shows the same bird.
Exhibit B
The Defence rests

The court duly accepts your evidence. Release this man.