It belongs to the Phasianidae family of
Galliformes order, with the scientific name of Tragopan caboti (Latin), or
Yellow-bellied Tragopan (English).
Its full-length is 46 to 61 centimeters. The
male's upper body is mostly chestnut brown, with light yellow round spots of
black brim, and the lower body is also light yellow. Its head is black with
black and castaneous red crista. The rectrices are black and tan, densely
covered with irregular yellow spots and wide black end strips. The ala tectices'
color is like the back feather. Its remiges are brown, mixed with yellow spots.
The naked skin on the check is vermeil and that on the larynx is turquoise blue
and vermeil. Body feathers of the female are taupe, densely covered with black,
tan stripes and white arrow-shaped lines.
It inhabits in broad-leaved evergreen
forests and mixed forests as well as other virgin forests in subtropical zones,
feeding on arbors, frutexs, bamboos, herbaceous plants and ferny burgeons, young
leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds, as well as a few animals. It is fond of
moving alone but forming small groups in winter. It builds the nests on trees
and lays 3 to 6 eggs per nest with an incubation period of 28 days.
Yellow-bellied Tragopan is a kind of
resident bird, distributed in Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangdong
provinces and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in China. It has a small quantity
of about 4,000 in total, with a few living in the wild. It has been listed in
Appendix I of International Trade Convention on Endangered Wild Animal and
Plant Species.