2G. TRAdOPAN. 



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Quills and primary-coverts black, barred on both webs with rufous 

 butt'; bastard-winj^ pale orange-red tipped with black; lesser and 

 mc'diiin under wing-covcrts orange-red. Tail black, the basal 

 part barred and variegated with buff. Bill blackish brown ; upper 

 throat and orbits purplish blue ; gular wattle orange or salmon with 

 transverse blue bars ; horns greenish blue ; legs and toes pale flesh- 

 colour. Total length 26 inches, wing 10-2, tail 9-5, tarsus 3-3. 



Iinmafnre males resemble the female, but the orange-red feathers 

 of the nuilc are more or less developed on the neck and sides of the 

 occiput; some of the black feathers of the head are likewise present, 

 and some of the feathers of the back and scapulars are spotted with 

 white at the extremity. 



Atlidt female. General colour above black mottled with buff, 

 rufous-buff', and sandy, many of the feathers of the back, scapulars, 

 and wing-coverts with buff shaft-spots ; on the wings the rufous- 

 buff tint predominates, (iuills as in the adult male. Chin and 

 thrdat white or buff; uuderparts sandy and buff finely mottled 

 with lines of Idack, most of the feathers with whitish or buff 

 triangular shaft-spots. Tail black, irregularly mottled and barred 

 witli buff and rufous-buff'. Total length I'J-o inches, wing \), 

 tail 7-1, tarsus 2-9. 



In a quite young specimen nearly all the feathers of the upper 

 and under parts have rufous shaft-stripes. 



Hah. The higher ranges of the Himalayas from Kumaon and 

 Western British Gurhwal, through Nepal and Sikhim to Bhotan. 



a-d. <S 5 ad. et 



iniui. sk. 

 e. cS ad.sk. 



et pull. sk. 

 V. (S ad. sk. 

 w. cT ad. sk. 



x-3. * $ad. etjuv. 

 sk. 



d 2 >id. sk. 



d $ ad. sk. 



d ? ad. et 



India. 



Kumaon. 

 Nepal. 



Hardwicke Coll. 



Hume CoU. 



B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



Ilurae Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



a'-h". 



imni. sk. 

 w', .r'. 2 ad. et 



pull. St. 

 y'js'.c^ad.skeletons. Nepal. 



a"-d". Skeletons. 



Nepal, June {J. Scully). 



Nepal, March (L. Man- 

 dell i). 



Dolaka, Nepal, Jan., July (/-. Hume Coll. 

 Mandelli). 



Native Sikhim, Jan. to Mav, Hume Coll. 

 Oct., Dec. (Z. Mandelli). 



Sikhim, Feb., April, June Hume Coll. 

 (L. Mandelli). 



l)arjeehng,Feb., March, Apri 



Hume and Salviu- 



Godman Colls. 

 Zool. Soc.CoU. 



B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



[P.]. 



2. Tragopan melanocephalus. 



Phasianus melanocephalus, Gray, in (iriff. ed. Cuv. iii. p. 20 (1829) 

 (Alraorah). 



One assuiuiDg the male plumage. 



