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western tragopan (Tragopan melanocephalus)
Subject: western tragopan (Tragopan melanocephalus)
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Tragopan melanocephalus adult male Hardwicke - western horned tragopan (Tragopan melanocephalus).jpg
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western tragopan (Tragopan melanocephalus)


Description
English: « Satyra melanocephala » = Tragopan melanocephalus (Western Tragopan) - adult male
Français: « Satyra melanocephala » = Tragopan melanocephalus (Tragopan de Hastings) - mâle adulte
Date between 1830 and 1832
Source Illustrations of Indian Zoology - volume 1 http://archive.org/stream/IllustrationsOfIndianZoology1/Hardwicke1#page/n103/mode/2up
Author Thomas Hardwicke (1755–1835) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hardwicke
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tragopan_melanocephalus_adult_male_Hardwicke.jpg

The western tragopan or western horned tragopan (Tragopan melanocephalus) is a medium-sized brightly plumed pheasant found along the Himalayas from north-eastern districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in northern Pakistan in the west to Uttarakhand within India to the east. The species is highly endangered and globally threatened. Order: Galliformes, Family: Phasianidae, Subfamily: Phasianinae. Synonym: Tragopan melanocephala.

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