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 inZhejiang, 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 ofInternational Trade Convention on Endangered Wild Animal and Plant Species.
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