PLATE XlII 



CABOT'S TRAGOPAN 



Tragopan caboti Gould 



Hundreds of bird-lovers have this Tragopan living In their aviaries ; probably less than a half dozen 

 white men have seen it wild. In houseboat and sampan one can penetrate to their haunts in Fokien, but 

 except for a quick shot at sight, one must have the patience and facility of a real wilderness creature to watch 

 these wary birds undiscovered. They are surrounded everywhere in the valleys by Chinese, who plant their 

 rice or bury their dead on every available spot. But the birds still hold their own in the face of a race which, 

 while it has deforested the whole country, yet prefers rice and fish to a diet of game. 



