TRE GAME BIRDS OF INDIA. 707 



Meleagris satyra. — Linn, Sys, Nat. i., p. 269 (1766) (Bengal) ; Latham Ind. 

 Oru. ii., p. ei9 (1790) ; Griff, ed. Cuv. iii. pi. (1829). 



Phasianus cornutus. — Mull. Suppl. Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 125 (1776) ; 

 Stephin Sbaw's Gen. Zool. xi., p. 2^9 (1819). 



Penelope satyra.— Gmelin. Sys. Nat. 1 pt. ii., p. 733 (1788) ; Bonnat. Tab. 

 End. Meth. i., p. 170, pi. 84 (1791). 



Phasianus satyrus. — Temin. Pig. et. Gal. ii., p. 349 (1813) ; ibid. iii. p. 672 

 (1815) ; Vieillot Nov. Die, Nat xi., 1817, p. 39 ; id. Gal. Ois. ii., ]825, p. 23, 

 pi. 206. 



Horned Plieasant. — Lath. Gen, Hist. viii. p. 208 (1823). 



Tragopan satyrus. — Cuv. Reg. Anim. i. p. 479 (1829) ; Gray in Griff, ed. 

 Cuv. iii. p. 31 (1829) ; Gould Cen. Him. Birds, pi. 62 (1832) ; Jerd. Nat. 

 Lib. Oru. iv. p. 222, pi. xxiv (1834) ; Temm. PI. Col. v. pis. 13, 14 (1834) ; 

 Ogilvie-Grant Oat. B. M. xxii. p. 271 (1893) ; id. Hand-L. Game-B. i., p. 

 220 (1895) ; Blanford, Fauna B. I. iv. p. 99 (1898) ; Gates, Game-B. Ind. 

 1 p. 241 (1898) ; Gates, Cat. Eggs B. M. i. p. 50 (1901) ; Ghigi Kend. Ace. 

 Bologna (5) x. pp. 403-4 (1903) ; Smith Avi. Mag. (3) i., p. 225 (1910) ; 

 Walton, Ibis, 1906, p. 247; Seth-Smith, Avi. Mag. (3) ii. p. 212(1911); 

 Finn., Gamo-B. India, p. 28 (1911) ; Beebe, Zoologicfe 1 No, 15, p. 269 

 (1914) ; id. Pheasants, i. p. 49 (1918). 



Satyra satyra. — Less. Diet. Sci. Nat. lix. p. 196 (1829) ; id. Traite d'Orn, 

 p. 493 (1831). 



? Phasianus nepaulensis. — Gray, in Griff, ed. Cuv. iii., p. 29 (1829). 



Phasianus melanocephalus. — (Jraj'', 111. Ind. Zool. i. p. 47 (1830-32). 



Satyra pennantL—iAray 111. Ind. Zool. i. pi. 49 (1830-32). 



Satyra lath2mi.— Gray, 111. Ind. Zool. i, pi. 51 (1830-32). 



Satyrus cornutus. — Schinz. Nat. Abild. Vog. p. 252, pi. 98 (1833). 



Satyra nepaulensis.— Gray, 111. Ind. Zool. pi. 40 (1834). 



Tragopan melanocephalus. — Jard. Nat. Lib. Orn, iv., p. 226, pi. xxvii 

 (1834). 



Ceriornis macrolophus. — ^Svvain. Class. B. ii., p. 341 (1837). 



Satyra {tragopan) alpnis. — Thien., Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. p. 52, tab. xii. 

 fig. 4 (1845-54). 



Ceriornis satyra. — Gray, Cat. Hodg. Mam. & B, ed, i., p. 125 (1846) ; 

 Blyth, Cat. Mus. As. Soc. p. 240 (1849) ; Sclater and Wolf, Zool, 

 Sketches, 2 pi, 3y (1831) ; Jerdon, B. of In, iii. p, 516 (1863) ; Sclater, List, 

 Phas. p. 10 "(1863) ; Irby, Ibis, 1868, p. 2.34 ; Beavan. Ibis 1868, p. 379; 

 Gould, B. of Asia, vii., pi. 49 (1868); Bulger, Ibis 1869, p. 169: Sclater, 

 P.Z.S. 1870, p. 164 ; Elliot. Mon. Phas. i pi. 22 (1872) ; Murie, P.Z.S. 1872, 

 p. 730. pis. Ix, Ixi ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 521 (1873) ; Marshall, B. Nest 

 In. p. 59 (1877) ; Hume and Marsh. Game-B. In. i p. 137 (1878) ; 

 Scully, Str. Feath. viii,, p. 343 (1879); Sclater P.Z.S. 1879, p, 117, 

 pi. viii. fig. 4; Gates ed. Hume's Nests and Eggs, iii. p. 409(1890). 



VERNACULAR NAMES.— 'hxmgi {H. Garhwal and Kumaon) ; Monal 

 (H. Nepal) ; Omo. Bap. (Bhutia) ; Tar-rhyak (Lepcha) ; Cham-dung {Tibetan). 



Description — Adult Male. — Head, crest, and a broad ring sur- 

 rounding the semi-naked gular patch, black. A streak on either 

 side of the crest, sides of the neck, hind neck, upper back, and the 

 whole of the lower plumage orange-crimson ; the ujoper back and 

 lower plumage from the breast to the vent with white black-edged 

 ocelli. On the breast and upper back the spots of white are small 

 and completely surrounded with a comparatively broad edging of 

 black ; towards the vent the spots get larger and larger, the white 



