96 A MONOGRAPH OF THE PHEASANTS 



Mandibles black, pale toward the tips; fleshy horns and facial area blue; 

 gular lappet deep purplish blue, with margins and indentations deep salmon ; legs 

 and feet pink or reddish, deeper in colour at the breeding season. Length, 639; 

 bill from nostril, 15; wing, 251 ; tail, 215; tarsus, 76; middle toe and claw, 66 mm. 



Adult Female. — In the large number of females of this species which I have 

 examined, I have found considerable variation, more, however, in tone than in pattern. 

 The general hue of the bird may vary from a cold grey, almost as in melanocephalus, 

 to a warm rufous throughout like the female of satyra. Most of this variation 

 in hue is due to wear. A recently moulted bird is warmly rufous, a bird during 

 or just after the breeding season is correspondingly bleached and grey. The 

 crown of the head is black, with conspicuous — either grey or buff — paddle-shaped 

 shaft-stripes. The nape in all specimens is decidedly tinged with rufous. The 

 upper parts present a mingling of vermiculation, of buff or grey and black, 

 accented by central whitish patches, and, especially in the rufous birds, with fre- 

 quent masses of black. There are two subterminal ocelli, which are very well 

 developed on the upper mantle and the wing-coverts. They form very marked 

 elongated patches on the outer web of the tertiaries. The flights are quite fully 

 marked with irregular bars on the outer, and mottling on the inner webs. The 

 tail is irregularly barred with mottlings of grey or rufous as the case may be. 



The chin and throat are nearly uniform ashy white or buff. On the sides 

 of the face and neck each feather is outlined with black, while on the throat a 

 central whitish area appears, accompanied by the invariable two black ocelli. The 

 white centre is the chief characteristic of the ventral plumage, expanding rapidly 

 posteriorly into a large oval patch or ocellus, the black having disappeared. The 

 white area is surrounded by a faintly vermiculated broad buff or grey border. 

 Iris brown ; legs and feet greyish flesh. Bill from nostril, 14 ; wing, 223 ; tail, 

 175; tarsus, 69; middle toe and claw, 58 mm. 



Natal Down. — A day-or-two-old chick of Temminck's Tragopan differs from 

 that of the satyr chiefly in the darker colour of the down. The head and hind 

 neck are more chocolate rufous than orange, while the back and the tail tuft are 

 very dark mahogany. The chin and under parts are pale buffy white with no 

 warm yellow tone, although the throat is more lemon, less cold buffy-white than 

 the belly. The breast is tinged with brownish. The well-grown flights are dark 

 brown, tipped with pale buff, and have several bands of black and pale buff across 

 the outer webs. The sprouting scapulars show as very pale buff, broadly margined 

 with black. There are no distinct facial markings. A chick measures : bill from 

 nostril, 5 ; wing, 57 ; tarsus, 25 ; middle toe and claw, 23 mm. 



First Year Plumage, Male. — The young males after the first autumn moult 

 are, as usual, almost indescribable from the extreme variation, due to the condition, 

 either retarded or advanced, of the adult pigment synthesis in the blood. Very 

 rarely do we find an individual clad in the full, dull, female-like plumage, but 

 almost always the head and neck (last to moult the down and the juvenile dress) 



