20. TRAGOPAX. 271 



20. TRAGOPAN. 



Type. 



Satyra, Less, (nee Meig. Dipt. 180.3) Diet. Sci. Nat. lix. 



p. 19G (1828) T. satyra. 



Tragopan, Ouv. [nee Mnhr. A v. 1752) H^ff. Anim. ^d. 2, i. 



p. 479 (1829) T. satyra. 



Cerioruis, Stcnbis. Clans. B. ii. p. 341 (1837) T. satyra. 



Ceratoriiis, Cub. in Ersch u. Grub. Eticycl. sec. 3, xxii. 



p. loO ( 1S40) T. satyra. 



Tail composed of 18 feathers, rather long, wedge-shaped, the 

 outer pair about two-thirds of the length of the centre pair. 



The 1st primary is shorter than the lOtli and much shorter than 

 the 2nd, which is about equal to the 8th or 9th : 4th or oth slightly 

 the longest. 



The male has a short crest, a pair of elongate fleshy horns 

 inserted above the eye, and a large gular flap, most prominent 

 in the breeding-season and especially when the birds are e.xcited by 

 passion. Cheeks and throat thinly covered with hair-like feathers. 



Sides of the head feathered. 



Axillaries very long. 



Tarsus equal to or slightly lon2;er than the middle toe and claw, 

 and armed in the male (rarely in the female) with a short stout 

 spur. 



Range. Northern India ; Himalayas from Cashmere to Assam 

 and N.E. Manipur; China, north to Shen-si, west to Sze-chuen, 

 south to Quang-si, and east to Fo-kien. 



Keij to the Species. 



A. Breast spotted with whito or grey. (Mules*.) 



a. With round white spots, surrounded with 



black. 

 «'. (Tcneral colour of the breast orange- 

 carmine sati/ra, p. 271. 



b'. General colour of the breast black me^anocephalus, p. 273. 



b. W'ith oval grey or lavender spots, not 



surrounded with black. (General colour 



of breast orange-carmine.) temmiucki, p. 275. 



B. Breast not spotted. 



c. Chest orange-red, breast dirty grey bh/thi, p. 276. 



d. Chest and breast buft' caboti, p. 277. 



1. Tragopan satyra. 



Horned Indian Pheasant, EJw. Xut. IIi.<t. />. iii. pi. 116 (1750). 

 Phasiauus bougalensis cornutus, Uriss. Oni. vi. App. p. 14 (17(50). 

 Meleagris satvra, Linn. S. N. i. p. 269 (1766); Lat/i. Ind. Oni. ii. 



p. 619 (1790) ; Grif. ed. Cm: iii. pi. (1829). 

 Le Napaul ou Faisan coruu, Buff". Hist. Xat. Ois. ii. p. 362 (1771). 



♦ I am unable to give a key to the plumnge of the other sex, as the females 

 of the last three species are not represented in the Collectiou. 



