l-G'4 PHASIANID^E. 



1346. Tragopan "blythi. The Grey-bellied Horned Pheasant. 



Ceiiornis temmincki, apud Jerdon, Ibis, 1870, p. 147, nee Gray. 

 Ceriornis blythii, Jerdon, P. A. S. B. .1870, p. 60 ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 



1870, p. 163, pi. xv ; Godw.-Aust. P. Z, S. 1872, p. 496; id. 



J. A. S. B. xliii, pt. 2, p. 172 ; Hume, S. F. vii, p. 472; id. Cat. 



no. 806 bis: Hume 8f Marsh. Game B. i, p. 151, pi. ; Godw.-Aitst. 



P. Z. S. 1879, p. 457, pi. xxxix ; Cran, S. F. x, p. 524 ; Hume, S. F. 



xi, p. 301. 

 Tragopan blythi, Ogiloie Grant, Cat. JS. M. xxii, p. 276. 



Hiir-Mria, Sansaria, Assam ; Gnu, Angami Naga ; Chingtho, Kuki. 



Coloration. Male. Forehead, vertex, lores, a band through the 

 ear-coverts behind the naked side of the head continued across 

 the throat, and joining another band that extends round the nape, 

 black ; broad supercilia meeting behind across the occiput and 

 neck all round, with upper breast and bend of wing, Indian red ; 

 crest short ; feathers of upper parts black, streaked with buff, 

 each with a subterminal white spot shading into brown all round, 

 and on each side of it a much larger deep red spot; terminal 

 portion of upper tail-coverts white, shading all round into chestnut 

 and tinted with black ; quills and tail as in T. satyra breast and 

 greater part of abdomen light epia to smoky grey, the edges of 

 the feathers slightly darker ; flanks passing into the coloration of 

 the back ; under tail-coverts smoky grey, edged with red and 

 tipped with black. 



Female (as described by Hume) much less grey than that of 

 T. melanocephahts, and distinguished from that of T. satyra by 

 being blacker and less ferruginous on the upper surface and 

 greyish creamy instead of ferruginous buff on the lower. I have 

 not been able to examine a specimen, but young males are more 

 finely vermiculated on the upper surface than either of the other 

 species, and have no black blotches at all. Young males have at 

 first the plumage of the female, nnd gradually assume the adult 

 male plumage ; and on the whole it is most probable that the 

 bird with a red neck figured by Godwin- Austen as a female must 

 have been either a very old female assuming the male dress or a 

 young male. 



Bill dusky ; skin of face and throat yellow, more or less mixed 

 wdth orange and emerald-green at the lowest part ; it is bordered 

 laterally by a very narrow black line ; legs fleshy (Jerdon). Irides 

 deep brown, orbital skin orange, horns azure, lappets brimstone 

 tinged with blue ; orbital skin in female light brown (Danuint). 



Wing of male 10-5; tail 8; tarsus 3-2; bill from gape 1-4; 

 wing of female 8-5 to 9. The length of the male is said by 

 Dr. Wood to be 30 inches, but this appears large. Skins ireasure 

 only 21 to 24. 



Distribution. Throughout the Naga hills south of Assam from 

 the neighbourhood of Paona Peak in the Burrail range on the 

 west to the high ranges south-east of Sadiya, and as far south as 

 Manipur, at elevations from 5000 to 10,000 t'eet and upwards in 

 summer. Dr. B-. Cran wrote to i Stray Feathers ' that a specimen 

 was sent to him from the Dafla hills north of Assam ; but the 



