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THE HORNED PHEASANTS. GENUS TRAGOPAN. 



Tragopan, Cuvier, Reg. Anim. ed. 2, i. p. 479 (1829). 



Type, Z! satyra (Linn.). 



Tail composed of eighteen feathers, rather long and wedge- 

 shaped, the outer pair being about two-thirds of the length of 

 the middle pair. 



First flight-feather shorter than the tenth and much shorter 

 than the second ; the fourth or fifth rather the longest. 



Axillary feathers very long. 



Sides of the head nearly naked or thinly feathered in the 

 males, completely so in the females. The male has a short 

 crest, an elongate, fleshy, erectile horn inserted above each eye, 

 and a large gular flap or apron-like wattle, most prominent in 

 the breeding-season, and especially when the birds are excited 

 by passion, but scarcely visible in winter. Feet armed in the 

 male (rarely in the female) with a pair of short, stout spurs. 



Plumage of sexes quite different. 



I. THE CRIMSON HORNED PHEASANT. TRAGOPAN SATYRA. 



Horned Indian Fheasa?it, Edwards, Nat. Hist. B. iii. pi. 116 



(1750)- 

 Meleagris satyra, Linn. S. N. i. p. 269 (1766). 

 Phasianus cornutus, P. L. S. Miill. Natursyst. Suppl. p. 125 



(1776). 

 Tragopan satyrtis, Cuv. Regne Anrni. 1. p. 479 (1829) ; Gould, 



Cent. B. Himal. pi. 62 (1832); Temm. PI. Col. v. pis. 13, 



14 [Nos. 543, 544] (1834); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. 



Mus. xxii. p. 271 (1893). 

 Satyra pennanti, pi. 49, and S. lathami, pi 51, J. E. Gray, 111. 



Ind. Zool. i. (1830-32), and S. nepauknsis, id. t.c. ii. pi. 



40 (1834). 

 Ceriornis satyra, G. R. Gray; Gould, B. Asia, vii. pi. 49 



(1868); Elliot, Monogr. Phas. i. pi. 22 (1872); Hume 



and Marshall, Game Birds of India, i. p. 137, pk (1878); 



Gates, ed. Hume's Nests and Eggs Ind. B. iii. p. 409(1890). 



