2 28 Allen's naturalist's library. 



and feeding on seeds, fruits, and leaves. Its cry is very loud, 

 and most nearly imitated by the syllable oua two or three times 

 repeated, whence its Chinese name Oua-oua-ky, but it is also 

 called Ko-ky, or Kiao-ky, meaning Horned Fowl, and Si7i- 

 tsion-ky, or Starred Fowl, on account of the grey spots adorn- 

 ing the plumage. The flesh is said to be capital eating. I 

 am informed that this bird is not met with under about 10,000 

 feet above the sea-level. 



IV. blyth's horned pheasant, tragopan blythi. 

 Cerioniis blythi, Jerd. P. As. Soc. Beng. 1870, p. 60; Sclater 



P. Z. S. 1870, pp. 163, 219, pi. 15; Gould, B. Asia, vii. pi. 



47 (1872); Elliot, Monogr. Phasian. i. pi. 26 (1872); 



Hume and Marshall, Game Birds of India, i. p. 152, pi. 



(1878) ; Godwin-Austen, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 457, pi. xxxix. 

 Tragopa?i blythii, Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 276 



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Adult Male. — Head, neck, and chest orange-red ; rest of upper- 

 parts like those of T. satyra, but with a very dark red patch on 

 each side of the white spot; sides and flanks similar; breast 

 and belly smoky-grey or greyish-buff. Horns azure; orbital 

 skin orange ; gular flap brimstone, tinged with greenish-blue 

 at the base. Total length, 24 inches ; wing, 10-2; tail, 7-4; 

 tarsus, 3'2. 



Adult Female. — Like the female of T. safyra, but with the 

 upper-parts blacker and less ferruginous ; the lower-parts paler 

 and without ferruginous-buff. From the female of T. viela- 

 nocephalus it is distinguished by having the black and buff 

 marking of the upper-parts much richer and darker. We have 

 only seen living female examples of this species, and have had 

 no opportunity of examining them close at hand. 



Range. — Higher ranges of North-eastern Assam, east of the 

 Burrail range and southwards to North-east Manipur. 



Habits. — Mr. G. Damant writes of the " Grey-bellied Trago- 

 pan," as he calls it: — "This bird is found on most of the 



