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39. Tragopan melanocephalus. The Western Horned Pheasant. 



iuAas= black; Ke0aXi)=a head. 



dewar, Garhwal; Jaghi, Bussahir; Sing-moonal, N. W. Himalaya; Fulgoor, Chamha; 

 Oigurana, Kulu. 



3^ 27" to 29" ; 4^ lbs. 2 24"; 2J to ^ lbs. Legs ashy. Bill black. Orbits 

 bright red. — Male: Gular wattle purple, spotted and edged pale blue. Horns 

 sky-blue. Crest black, tipped red. Sides of head naked. Above brown, 

 irregularly barred and spotted white on black. Breast and below black, dashed 

 dull red, with white spot. Tail black, barred buff except at tips. — Female.- Above 

 mottled grey and brown, the feathers edged brown with white shafts. Below 

 ashy brown, with shafts more broadly marked, thus forming a series of white 

 splashes in regular lines from throat to under-tail. — Young : Second year head 

 and neck red. W. Himalayas to Kashmir. Six eggs {2-51 x 1-7), pale buff, 

 finely freckled. (J. 806. B. 1345. 0. 51. O.G. i. 224. H. & M. i. 143.) See 

 illustration, p. 86. 



40. Tragopan temmlncki. Tbmminck's Horned Pheasant. 



3" 25". 5 23". Legs reddish. Bill black. Orbits blue. — Male : Gular wattle 

 deep blue, margined red. Occipital crest orange-red. Sides of head naked. 

 Above Indian red, with grey spots edged black. Below dark Indian red, spotted 

 grey. — Female : Above dark rufous and grey, with triangular white patches on 

 back and wings. Below rufous and buff, blotched white. Tail black, mottled 

 and barred pale rufous. From Mishmi HiUs, S.W. and C. China. (0. 52. 

 O.G. i. 227.) 



41. Tragopan blythi. The Gret-bellibd Horned Pheasant. 

 Hur-huria, Assam; Gnu, Naga Hills; Chingto (Euki). 



$ 21" to 23". S 18" to 20". Legs light brown. Bill dusky. Orbital skin 



orange. — Male : Horns azure. Gular wattle brimstone. Forehead black. Nape 



and breast maroon. Abdomen light sepia, with brown markings. Above maroon 



with buff and black bars, spotted white on red. — Female: As T. satyra, but 



blacker and less ferruginous above and creamy below. Three or four eggs 



{2-42 X 1-71), pale buff, minutely speckled brown. N.E. Assam to N.E. Manipur. 



<B. 1346. 0. 53. O.G. i. 228. H. & M. i. 151.) 



Also T. caboti, the Buffy H.P. from S. and E. China. S 23". Above olive-brown, with 

 black shafts and buff spots. 



Note. — The following genera of the subfamily Phasianinm, viz. Lophura, 

 Lophophorus, Ithagenes, Galloperdix, Bambusicola, and Ophryda, all have the 

 tail shorter than the wing in both sexes. 



Genus LOPHURA. 

 Tail long, of sixteen feathers, laterally compressed. Crested, with naked face 

 and pair of wattles in both sexes. — Male: With long spur on each tarsus. — Female: 

 Bather handsomely plumaged. S.E. Asia and some of the islands. 



42. Lophura rufa. Vieillot's Crested Fireback Pheasant. 

 Knokwah, 5mm; Mooah-mooah (Malay). 



3 27" to 29"; 4J to 5 lbs. 2 23" to 24" ; 3 to 3 J lbs. Legs vermilion. Bill 

 "white. Naked face and wattles blue. — Male : Crest brush-like with bare shafts, 

 black. Upper back and below black, glossed purple. Lower back and rump 



