154 THE GREY-BELLIED TRAGOPAN. 



The tibial plumes and some of the vent feathers regularly 

 and closely barred hair-brown and dull buff ; the lower tail- 

 coverts brown, rather dark on the terminal one-third, where 

 they are freckled and blotched with ferruginous buff, and with 

 a more or less conspicuous oval, purer buff spot or drop just 

 at the tip. 



The lower surface of the quills and their greater lower 

 coverts grey brown, with a few pale buff spots or markings on 

 the inner webs at or towards their margins ; the rest of the 

 wing-lining deep brown, profusely spotted with ferruginous buff. 



From the female of melanocephalus it is at once distinguish- 

 ed by the black and buff of the upper surface, so much richer 

 and darker in tone ; altogether different from the comparatively 

 grey upper surface of melanocephalus. From the female of 

 satyra it equally differs ; on the upper surface it is blacker 

 and less ferruginous ; on the lower surface it is paler and 

 wholly wants the warm ferruginous buff of that species, which 

 in the present is replaced by greyish creamy. After they have 

 once been seen, unlike the females of the Gallophasis section of 

 the Euplocami, the females of the several species of Ceriomis 

 can be as easily recognized as the males. 



The young males show the transition from the female to the 

 male plumage, just as do those of melanocephalus and satyra. 



Two OTHER species of this superb genus are known, C. tem- 

 mincki, The Chinese Crimson Tragopan from Western and 

 South-Western China, and C. caboti, the Buffy Tragopan, 

 from South-Eastern China. 



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