BLACK-HEADED TRAGOPAN. 
Tragopan melanocephalus — Gray. 
PLATE XXVII. 
Satyra melanocephalus, Gray's Illustrations of Zoology. 
Mr Gray has given a representation of this bird 
in his Illustrations, from one of General Hardwick’s 
drawings. It differs from the others in the waut of 
any naked appendages to the head or throat, and in 
the head having a large crest, which is represented 
rising from the crown in erect feathers, with dis- 
united webs, from the nostrils to the hind head : it 
is of a deep black, inclining to purple at the tip, 
and the whole of the head, cheeks, and throat are of 
the same colour, whence Mr Gray has taken his spe- 
cific name. The plumage bears a strong resemblance 
to the others, but we can give no detailed descrip- 
tion of it, or any information regarding its habits. 
A fourth species is also figured by Mr Gray, under 
the name of Satyra Pennantii, which is the last of 
the known species belonging to this division. 
