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But in the second place, the specimens of this species, observed by Mr. Bennett in 
Mr. Beale’s Aviary at Macao, had been procured in Yunan, the north-western 
portions of which almost meet the Mishmi Hills, so that there can be no reason to 
doubt that this bird did really come, as supposed, from these latter. 
The Chinese Crimson Tragopan greatly resembles the Indian Crimson Tragopan 
(Vol. I., pp. 137, e¢ seg), but may be distinguished at once by having the inter- 
scapulary region, scapulars, back,rump, and upper tail-coverts, of the same rich maroon 
red as the lower part of the back of the neck, thickly dotted with circular or oval, 
pearly grey or greyish white, spots, more or less completely encircled by a narrowish 
black band. Also by having the breast and under parts all thickly set with huge, 
oval, pearly grey spots, occupying more than half the visible terminal portions of the 
feathers, spots zo¢ surrounded by a black line as ave the much smaller ones on the 
breast of satyra. 
The following are the dimensions taken from this Mishmi skin, which is that of an 
adult male :—Length, about 230; wing, 10°3; tail, from tke os coccygis, 9'0; tarsus, 
3:2; mid toe and claw, 3°0; bill from gape, 1°5. The bird is, therefore, much 
about the same size as satyra. 
The colours of the soft parts I quote from Pére David: “TIrides chestnut ; bill 
white ; culmen and base brownish ; legs and feet of a rosy flesh colour, inclining to 
red ; horns of a bluish green, indigo blue at base ; naked skin round the eye indigo 
blue, with the lores and eyebrows green; gular apron indigo blue, passing to 
greenish blue on the edges, which are ornamented with sguare patches of purplish 
red.” Gould figures these patches as oval and crimson, and Captain Stevens writes :— 
“T kept the bird for aver a year inacagein my verandah. It had light blue 
horns and dark blue wattles, with crimson bars.” 
The forehead and anterior portion of the crown, (the central feathers of which 
are elongated and form the anterior portions of the crest), the sides of the head, 
including the ear-coverts and a band round the margin of the gular skin, black ; the 
posterior portion of the crown and occiput, (the feathers of which are elongated and 
form the central and posterior portions of the crest), and the feathers of the upper 
part of the neck all round immediately adjoining the black already referred to, a sort 
of orange yellow at their bases, becoming a ferruginous maroon towards the tips. 
The lower part of the back of the neck, interscapulary region, scapulars, back, 
rump, and all but the longest row of upper tail-coverts a rather dull maroon red, the 
feathers with numerous, small, circular or oval, greyish white to pearly grey spots, 
surrounded by a black band, more or less imperfect in some, and showing here and 
there, where the feathers are slightly disturbed. a tongue-shaped black band running 
up from this black frame which encircles the spot, and witha zig-zaggy whitish line 
inside the margin of this tongue. The longest upper tail-coverts are grey brown, 
washed towards their margins with rusty maroon. In the next row of tail-coverts 
above these the greyish white spots are very much larger than in the smaller upper 
tail-coverts, and almost entirely want the black encircling band ; the tail is black, the 
basal three-fourths are more or less profusely variegated with irregular, transverse, zig- 
zaggy bars, ofa warm buff colour, more or less ferruginous on the lateral tail feathers $ 
the exterior tail feathers of all are fully two inches shorter than the rest, and are 
only blackish brown, and show a dull, imperfect, rufous buff tipping ; a faint trace 
of the same on the next pair ; the primaries and their greater coverts and the secon- 
daries are black, variegated like the tail; the markings on the secondaries being, 
however, paler and yellower; the winglet, the two longest feathers of which are 
longer than the primary greater coverts, and have the outer webs a uniform rich 
ferruginous orange buff, form a conspicuous longitudinal band on the anterior portion 
of the wing—a feature common to Ceriornis satyra ; the shoulder of the wing a sort 
of orange maroon ; the tertiaries and the rest of the coverts much like the back, 
except that the pearly grey spots are larger, and that the feathers are here and there 
variegated with zig-zaggy irregular spots. patches or bars, of yellowish white to 
ferruginous buff, set in black, which, however, are only conspicuous on_ the 
tertiaries ; the edge of the wing and the smaller lower wing-coverts orange buff, the 
feathers washed at the tips with maroon. 
The breast and entire lower parts, except the tibial plumes and the longest lower 
tail-coverts, mingled rich maroon and delicate French grey ; the feathers of the 
breast and upper abdomen being maroon, with a huge, terminal, oval grey spot, 
which, in all the feathers of the breast, goes quite, or almost quite, to the end of 
the feathers, while, in the feathers of the lower abdomen and flanks, there is a 
perceptible, though narrow, maroon fringe left beyond the grey spot, and in the 
lesser and median lower tail-coverts this fringe is so much more developed that the 
