Tragopans

Other species such as pheasants, and tragopans-e. g., ❋ Unknown (2008)

The bird assemblage also includes several threatened species of pheasants, tragopans, and hornbills that need mature forests and have low tolerances for disturbance. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Gideon Spilett, with a stone cleverly and vigorously thrown, killed one of these tragopans, on which ❋ Unknown (2005)

They were tragopans, ornamented by a pendant skin which hangs over their throats, and by two small, round horns, planted behind the eyes. ❋ Unknown (2005)

In the highest ranges the snow-cocks, the tragopans, the blood-pheasant, and the glorious monaul or Impeyan pheasant abound. ❋ Douglas Dewar (1916)

In one locality seven great valleys had been completely cleared of pheasants, only a single pair of tragopans remaining; and from one of these little brown men I took two hundred nooses which had been prepared for these lone survivors. ❋ William Temple Hornaday (1895)

The heart of the Himalayas, -- the haunts of some of the most beautiful birds in the world, the tragopans, the blood and impeyan pheasants -- lies within the limits of Nepal, a little country which time and time again has bade defiance to British attacks, and still maintains its independence. ❋ William Temple Hornaday (1895)

When we remember the intense heat of that low-lying city, and learn from the records of the Calcutta Zoological Garden that impeyans and tragopans are even shorter-lived than in Europe, the absurdity of the idea is apparent. ❋ William Temple Hornaday (1895)

Western tragopans dying within a week of each other, a project to breed the critically endangered bird has received a setback. ❋ Unknown (2010)