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THE GOLDEN-BREASTED TRAGOPAN. 



Tragopan Hastingii GOULD. 



PLATE XXV. MALE PLATE XXVI. FEMALE. 



Tragopan Hastingii, Gould's Century. 



THIS is another very beautiful species, about the 

 same size with the last, and figured and described 

 by Mr Gould in his Himalayan Century. The horns 

 and wattles are of the same bluish-purple. The 

 crown is furnished with a lengthened crest of the 

 same kind of disunited or hairy-looking feathers, 

 pure black : the back of the neck, upper part of the 

 back and shoulders, are of a deep uniform purplish- 

 red : the wings, and whole of the upper parts, ex- 

 cept the tail-coverts, are of a deep wood-brown, 

 each feather having an ocellated spot of white, sur- 

 rounded with black, most prominently conspicuous 

 on the lower part of the back arid tips of the se- 

 condaries. Immediately below the naked wattles 

 there is a patch of brilliant golden -orange ; the 

 f ,athers composing it narrow and lengthened, and 

 >f a hard horny consistence, their points disumti 

 stretching over, and very conspicuous upon the de 

 black which covers the rest of the under par 



