30 GAME BIRDS OF INDIA AND ASIA. 



the crimson species, their respective limits being 

 separated by a distance of about four days' march. 

 It keeps near the snow in summer, descending 

 lower in winter. The eggs, six in number, of a 

 pale buff minutely freckled, were taken in Hazara 

 in May by Captain Lautour. They seem to be 

 slightly smaller than those of the red species. 



The Grey-breasted or Assam Tragopan. 



Tragopan blyfMi, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, 



Vol. IV, p. 102. 



Native names : — Hur-huria, Sansaria, Assam ; 

 Gnu, Angami Naga ; Ckingtho, Kuki. 



This is smaller than the other Indian species, 

 and has a shorter crest and tail. The male has a 

 black head, with red eye-brows meeting behind, 

 the neck and bend of the wing red as usual, 

 and the underparts below the breast smoky grey ; 

 the upper plumage is black mottled with buff and 

 spotted with white and red; the tail is black. The 

 bare face and throat are yellow, running into green 

 below ; the bill and eyes dark, the horns blue, and 

 the feet flesh-coloured as in other male Tragopans. 



The hen is of the usual hen Tragopan giizzle, 

 less grey in tone than the black Tragopan ben ; 

 from the hen of the crimson species she may be 

 distinguished by having a greater proportion of 

 black above, and being mottled with dirty cream- 

 colpTjr instead of buff below, the upper and under 

 surface being thus more strongly contrasted than 

 in the other. These hen Tragopans are easy enough 

 to distinguish on comparison, but as no two species 

 inhabit the same tract, this will rarely be necessary. 



