Crossword-Solution: TRAGOPAN
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| Tragopan | n. | Any one of several species of Asiatic pheasants of the genus Ceriornis. They are brilliantly colored with a variety of tints, the back and breast are usually covered with white or buff ocelli, and the head is ornamented with two bright-colored, fleshy wattles. The crimson tragopan, or horned pheasant (C. satyra), of India is one of the best-known species. |
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| pheasant | 7 answers |
| BIRD of plumage | 19 answers |
| Plumed bird | 21 answers |
| INDIAN bird | 24 answers |
| Asian bird | 47 answers |
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Sentences with TRAGOPAN (5)
Bartlett, of the Zoological Gardens, who has had very large experience with birds, whether the male tragopan (one of the Gallinaceae) was polygamous, and I was struck by his answering, “I do not know, but should think so from his splendid colours.” It deserves notice that the instinct of pairing with a single female is easily lost under domestication.
The male Tragopan pheasant acts in nearly the same manner, for he raises the feathers of the body, though not the wing itself, on the side which is opposite to the female, and which would otherwise be concealed, so that nearly all the beautifully spotted feathers are exhibited at the same time.
There is no improbability in the plain, though peculiarly spotted plumage of this latter bird having been acquired through sexual selection by the males, and then transmitted to both sexes; for it is not essentially different from the much more beautifully spotted plumage, characteristic of the males alone of the Tragopan pheasants.
Tragopan, swelling of the wattles of the male, during courtship; display of plumage by the male; marking of the sexes of the.
Among the most interesting forms are the hornbills, the peacock, the Impey pheasant, the tragopan or horned pheasant, and other gallinaceous birds, the pheasant family being very characteristic of South-Eastern Asia.