Identifier: birdnotes53fore (find matches)
Title: Bird notes
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Foreign Bird Club National British Bird and Mule Club
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Great Britain Periodicals
Publisher: Brighton : Foreign Bird Club : National British Bird and Mule Club
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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are very likethose of T. satyra, and might easily be mistaken for them.The eggs, three or four in number, are smaller than the CrimsonTragopans, and are buff, lightly speckled with pink. Writing of the Crimson Tragopan, Mr. Mume gives thefollowing excellent account: - ■ In the sutnmcr tliey arc to be fouiul at elevation of from 8,000 to 10,000 feet, always in thick cover, by preference in patches of the slender reed-like ringal bamboo in the neighbourhood of water. Although alwavs on hills near to, or bordering on the snow, they are never seen amongst it (except i^erhaps in winter), and seem to shun it as much as the Blood Pheasant delights in it. lC\en the Moinial will be seen high above the forest, well U)) on grassy slopes fringed with and dotted about with patches of snow. But the Tragopan is essentially a forest bird, rarclv. if ever, wandering up towards the snow, or into the open, and, although frequenting perhaps rather their outskirts than their deeper recesses, Bird Notes.
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Photo by \V. Shore Baily.Crimson Tragopaii. (c? ).

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