TBAGOPAJ*. &9 



1344. Tragopan satyra. The Crimson Horned Pheasant. 



Meleagris satjra, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 269 (1760). 



Tragopan satvrus, Cuv. Reg. Ati. 2 e ed. i, p. 479. 



Ceriornis satyra, Bli/th, Cat. p. 240 ; Jerdon, B. I. iii. p. 516 ; Blanf. 



J. A. S.B. xli, pt. 2, p. 71 ; Murie, P. Z. 8. 1872, p. 7-30, pis. Ix, Ixi 



Hume, N. $ E. p. 521 ; Hume fy Marsh. Game B. i, p. 137, pi. ; 



Hume, Cat. no. 805 ; Scully, S. F, viii, p. 343 ; Gates in Hume's 



N. Sf E. 2nd ed, iii, p. 409. 

 Tragopan satyra, Oyilme Grant, Cat. B. M. xxii, p. 271. 



The Sikim Horned Pheasant, Jerdon ; Lungi, H. Garhwal and 

 Kuiuaun ; Mondl, H. (Nepal) ; Omo, Bap, Bhotia ; Tar-rhyak, Lepcha. 



Fig. 19. Head of T. satyra, tf. f. 



Coloration. Male. Head, sides of nape, throat, and forerneck black ; 

 two streaks, one on each side of the occiput, meeting at the nape, 

 the middle of the nape itself, the neck except in front, bat with 

 broad bands running to behind the ear-coverts, upper back, bend of 

 wing and coverts near it, and all the lower parts from the neck 

 crimson ; the upper back and all the lower parts, except the upper- 

 most breast, spotted over with white black-edged ocelli, small and 

 sharply defined on the breast and back, larger, ill-defined, and 

 grey instead of white on the abdomen ; wing-lining, except the 

 larger coverts, buffy red ; interscapulars, scapulars, and the 

 neighbouring wing-coverts, lower back and rurnp-t'eathers black 

 with rufous-buff veriniculation, each feather with a subterminal 

 white ocellus, broadly edged with black, and a large rounded brown 

 spot on each side of the ocellus ; most of the wing-coverts and the 

 sides of the rump the same, but with deep crimson patches ; quills 

 black, with rufous-buff imperfect bars and vermiculations ; upper 

 tail-coverts brown with black tips ; tail-feathers black, vermicu- 

 lated with buff on the basal two-thirds. 



Female. General colour rich ochreous brown, paler below, above 

 black in blotches or mixed with rufous buff, and in parts with 

 greyish brown ; pale shaft-stripes on the crown and throat, passing 

 into angular ill-defined buff shaft-spots on the body, much broken 

 by mottling and generally larger below than above ; quills as in 

 male ; tail-feathers barred, mottled, and vermiculated with buff 

 throughout. 



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