98 A MONOGRAPH OF THE PHEASANTS 



tugging and disruption of plumage ! At this stage the primaries have nearly completed 

 their moult. 



The very blunt spurs are now 6 mm. in length and the wing and tail measure 

 respectively 233 and 178 mm. One of the changes occurring at this moult is a 

 slight lengthening in the wing and tail feathers and a darkening of both. This 

 brings us to the fully adult male. 



EARLY HISTORY AND SYNONYMY 



Long before any member of the white race had set eyes upon this bird, it 

 had become familiar through coloured pictures drawn on Chinese rice paper. For 

 many years these were thought, dragon-like, to be bizarre figments of the fertile 

 Mongolian brain ; but when the first bird was discovered it was found that some 

 of these pictures were exceedingly true to life both in colour and pattern. 



The first appearance in scientific literature appears to be the rather unhappy 

 delineation in " Illustrations of Indian Zoology," to which Mr. J. E. Gray gave 

 the name of Chinese Horned Pheasant, or Satyra temminckii. Considered on its 

 merits as art, it is actually much inferior to some of the above-mentioned early 

 Chinese paintings, while the black face and yellow marked lappets are wholly 

 imaginary. 



The male type which is in the British Museum is a most unhappy looking 

 specimen with half of the tail cut off. 



Synonymy — Tragopan temmincki 



Satyra temminckii J. E. Gray, 111. Indian Zool., I. 1830-32, pi. 50; G. R. Gray, List of Birds, Pt. III. 1844 

 Gall., p. 28. 



Tragopan temminckii Bennr., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1834, p. 33. 



Ceriomis temmincki Gray, Genera of Birds, III. 1845, p. 499; Blyth, Cat. Mus. Asiatic Soc, 1849, p. 240; 

 Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1863, p. 307; Sclater, List of Phas., 1863, p. n, pi. n [China]; Gray, List of Gallinae, 

 Brit. Mus., 1867, p. 41; Gould, Birds of Asia, VII. 1869, pi. 46; Gray, Hand-List of Birds, II. 1870, p. 262; 

 Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1870, p. 164 [N. & E. Szechuen to C. China]; Jerdon, Ibis, 1870, p. 147 [Upper, 

 Assam] ; David, N. Arch. Mus. Bull., VII. 1871, p. n [Szechuen] ; Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1871, p. 399 ; Elliot, 

 Mon. Phas., I. 1872, pi. 24; David and Oustalet, Ois. Chine, 1877, p. 118, pi. 112 [S. W. China to S. Shensi] ; 

 Hume, Stray Feathers, VIII. 1879, p. 201 [Mishmi Hills]; Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1879; p. 117, pi. VIII. 

 fig. 3 ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1891, p. 379 [W. Szechuen]; Mitchell, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1911, p. 522 [longevity]. 



Tragopan temmincki Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds, Brit. Mus., XXII. 1893, p. 275; Ogilvie-Grant, Hand- 

 book of Game-birds, I. 1895, P- 22 7 > Oates, Game-birds of India, I. 1898, p. 251; Nehrkorn, Katalog der 

 Eiersammlung, 1899, p. 192 [des. of eggs]; Sharp, Hand-list of Birds, I. 1899, p. 33; Oates, Cat. Eggs, Brit. 

 Mus., I. 1901, p. 51 [egg]; Ghigi, Mem. R. Ace Sci. 1st. Bologna, (5), X. 1903, pp. 394, 404, 406, tav. I, II. 

 [physiology of horns and lappets] ; Baker, Jour. Bombay Nat. His. Soc, XVIII. 1908, p. 753 [Burmese record, 

 Panseng Pass]; Oates, Jour. Bombay Nat. His. Soc, XIX. 1909, p. 260 [first Burmese record, Sadon] ; Finn. 

 Game-birds of India & Asia, 191 1, p. 31 ; Wilson, A Naturalist in Western China, II. 1914, p. 120 [general 

 account]; Beebe, Zoologica, I. No. 15, 1914, p. 270. 



Temminck's Tragopan St. Quintin, Avic Mag, (1), 1903, P- 96 [breeding in captivity]. 



