A spotted red tragopan with a blue and black face perches on a gnarled conifer, with a pink flowering shrub in the foreground, and a brown female bird in the background.
Temmincks' tragopan, from A Monograph of the Pheasants by William Beebe, 1918. This is the same William Beebe known for his dives in the Bathysphere! #birds #tragopan #oldbooks #rarebooks #naturalhistory