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BLACK-HEADED TRAGOPAN. 



Tragopan melanocephalus. GRAY. 



PLATE XXVII. 



Satyra melanocephalus, Gray's Illustrations of Zooloffy. 



MR GRAY has given a representation of this bird 

 in his Illustrations, from one of General Hardwick's 

 drawings. It differs from the others in the want of 

 any naked appendages to the head or throat, and in 

 the head having a large crest, which is represented 

 rising from the crown in erect feathers, with dis- 

 united wehs, from the nostrils to the hind head : it 

 is of a deep black, inclining to purple at the tip, 

 and the whole of the head, cheeks, and throat are of 

 the same colour, whence Mr Gray has taken his spe- 

 cific name. The plumage bears a strong resemblance 

 to the others, but we can give no detailed descrip- 

 tion of it, or any information regarding its habits. 

 A fourth species is also figured by Mr Gray, under 

 the name of Satyra Pennantii, which is the last of 

 the known species belonging to this division. 



