THE HORNED PHEASANTS. 229 



h'gh ranges in the Naga Hills, notably on the Burrail range, 

 near the villages of Kohima, Khenomah, and Mozemah. 



"It is a permanent resident, and does not appear to migrate. 



" It is found on the highest peaks (which attain an altiiude 

 of 9,000 feet in the Burrail range) and probably never descends 

 to a lower elevation than 5,000 feet. It is said to breed in the 

 month of April, and to lay three or four eggs. 



" During the cold weather it is found at lower elevations 

 than in the rains, as it descends as the mountain springs dry up. 



"It appears to be generally distributed, but is not very 

 common. Two live examples, now in my possession, eat 

 worms and a kind of red berry very greedily. So far as I 

 have observed, it has only one note resembling the syllable 

 'ak.' 



" The Nagas catch these birds by laying a line of snares 

 across a ravine which they are known to frequent, and then, 

 with a large semicircle of beaters, driving the birds down to 

 them. They go as quietly as possible so as not to frighten thi 

 birds sufficiently to make them take flight, as, if not much 

 alarmed, they prefer running." 



V. cabot's horned pheasant, tragopan caboti. 



Ceriornis caboti^ Gould, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 161 ; id. B. Asia, vii. 



pi. 48 (1858) ; Elliot, Monogr. Phasian. i. pi. 25 (1872) ; 



David and Oustalet, Ois. Chine, p. 419, pi. iii (1877). 

 Ceriornis modestus^ David, MS. ; David and Oustalet, Ois. 



Chine, p. 419 (1877). 

 Tragopa7i caboti^ Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 277 



(1893). 



{^Plate XVI II.) 



Adult Male. — Upper-parts, sides, and flanks differ from those 



of T. blythi in having each feather black down the middle, with 



a bujf spot at the extremity and an Indian-red patch on each 



side ; the basal part of each feather also spotted with white ; 



under-parts buff ; naked sides of head and gular flap reddish- 



