THE HORNED PHEASANTS. 22J 



"Though the most solitary of our Pheasants, and in their 

 native forests perhaps the shyest, they are the most easily 

 reconciled to confinement ; even when caught old they soon 

 loose their timidity, eating readily out of the hand; and little 

 difficulty is experienced in rearing them." 



Nest.— Placed on the ground, and roughly constructed of 

 grass, small sticks, and a few feathers. 



Eggs. — Six in number (in the one nest found) ; long ovals, 

 pointed at the smaller end, with very little gloss but fine 

 shell ; pale buff, very finely granulated with a darker shade. 

 Average measurements, 2*51 by 17 inches. 



in. temminck's horned pheasant, tragopan temmincki. 



Satyra temminckii, J. E. Gray, 111. Ind. Zool. i. pi. 50(1830-32). 



Ceriomis temmincki, G. R. Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 499 (1845) ; 

 Sclater, List of Phas. p. n, pi. 11 (1863) ; Gould, B. Asia, 

 vii.pl. 46 (1869); Elliot, Monogr. Phasian. i. pi. 24(1872); 

 David and Oustalet, Ois. Chine, p. 118, pi. 112 (1877). 



Tragopan temmincki, Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 



275 (i§93)- 



Adult Male. — Differs chiefly from the two last-mentioned 

 species in having the occipital crest orange-red, the upper-parts 

 Indian red, with pearl-grey spots edged with black, and the 

 under-parts dark Indian red, with a large grey spot near the 

 extremity of each feather. Horns blue ; gular flap deep blue, 

 barred with red on the outer margins. Total length, 25 inches ; 

 wing, 9*9; tail, 78; tarsus, 3*2. 



Adult Female. — Apparently much like that of T. satyra, but 

 we have never had the opportunity of examining specimens, 

 except those living in the aviaries at the Zoological Gardens. 



Range. — South-western and Central China, extending from 

 the Mishmi Hills through Sze-chuen to Southern Shen-si and 

 Hoo-pih. 



Habits. — Abbe David tells us that this bird lives a solitary 

 life on the wooded mountains, seldom leaving the thick covert, 



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