Vv PHASIANIDAE ZY, 
monogamous, though found in small companies at times; they 
run slowly, take refuge in trees, and fly with a whirring sound. 
They roost aloft, but feed constantly upon the ground, eating 
erubs, insects, roots, flowers, fruits, and especially seeds or 
herbage ; the note is a deep monotonous “ bellowing ” or “ wailing 
sound.” The fleshy excrescences are said to be chiefly developed in 
the breeding season, when the male, who possibly assists in 
incubation, struts before his consort like a Turkey. A nest is 
Fic. 47.—Cabot’s Tragopan. Ceriornis caboti. x}. (From Nature.) 
sometimes formed of twigs, grass, and feathers to contain the 
seven or eight whitish eggs with dull lilac spots or red freckles, 
Tragopans are mistakenly termed “ Argus” by sportsmen in India. 
In Jthagenes, or Blood-Pheasant, the bill is short and stout, 
the tail fairly long and rounded, the plumage soft and acuminate ; 
the orbits are naked and red, and each metatarsus is armed with 
two or more spurs, generally absent in the female. JL. eruentus 
of the Eastern Himalayas and Tibet has a full buff crest, black 
forehead and lores, lead-coloured back and wings, brownish 
remiges and rectrices with white tips to the latter, and a green 
