THE TRAGOPANS 



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with a brightly -colored lappet, hanging down several inches when the birds are 

 excited by passion, but barely visible during the winter. Their habitat includes 

 the higher wooded ranges of Northern India and China. By far the most 

 brilliantly-colored species is the crimson tragopan (Tragopan satyra) ranging in 

 the Himalayas from Kumaon to Bhutan. The male has the top and sides of the 

 head black, the neck, mantle, and under parts orange carmine, and the rest of the 

 upper parts olive brown, each feather being ornamented at the tip with a round 



CRIMSON TRAGOPAN. 

 (One-fifth natural size.) 



white spot, partially or entirely margined with black, the outer wing coverts being 

 edged on each side with dark orange carmine. The throat wattle is salmon color 

 with transverse blue bars, and the legs are pale flesh. The general color of the 

 female is black above, mottled and spotted with various shades of buff, the chin and 

 throat being whitish, and the under parts sandy finely marked with black and pale 

 buff or whitish shaft spots. !' These birds," writes Mr. Hume, in summer, "are to 

 be found at elevations of from eight thousand to ten thousand feet, always in thick 



