GAME BIRDS OF INDIA AND ASIA^ 29 



from six to twelve thousand feet in elevation. It 

 breeds in May, laying eggs much like large hen's 

 eggs, white with pale dull lilac markings, and about 

 two and-a-half inches long. 



The Black or Western Tragopan. 



Tragopan melanocephalus, Faun. Brit. Ind., 

 Birds, Vol. IV, p. loi. 



Native names : — Jewar, Jowar, in Garhwal ; 

 Jaighi, Jajhi, Bashahr ; Sing-monal, Hindi 

 in N.-W. Himalayas ; Jigurana (the 

 cock), Budal (the hen), Kulu, Mandi and 

 Suket ; Falgur, Chamba. 



This bird has a longer crest than the Crimson 

 Tragopan, and is a little larger, with a slightly shorter 

 tail ; the face of the. cock is also bare. His pre- 

 vailing colour is black, grizzled' with buff above, 

 and spotted with white both there and below. 

 The. neck is red, brightest in front ; and the top of 

 the crest and bend of the wing are also red ;. there 

 is also a certain admixture of red below the breast. 

 The bill is blackish, eyes brown, legs flesh-colour- 

 ed, and horns blue as usual ; but the bare face is 

 bright red, and the dewlap purple in the middle, 

 and showing spots of blue and flesh-colour at the 

 sides. 



The hen is of a grizzled brown, much greyer in 

 tone than that of the Crimson Tragopan hen, and 

 with the pale spots below — ^which are white, not 

 buff — better defined and dark-bordered. Her feet 

 are grey. 



This bird inhabits the North-Western Hima- 

 layas from Garhwal to Hazara. It nowhere meets 



