Swinhoe's blue pheasant lives at lower altitudes than the mikado pheasant and was first spotted by Robert Swinhoe when he came to Taiwan in the mid-nineteenth century.
藍腹鷳分佈的海拔比帝雉低，斯文豪來台期間，首先在山上看到了其他國家沒有、令他「驚豔」的藍腹鷳。