Ornith. [a. L. tragopān, Gr. τραγόπᾱν, name of a reputed bird in Ethiopia (perh. the bearded vulture); f. τράγος goat + Πάν Pan; in mod.Ornithology taken as the name of a genus (Cuvier, 1829).] A pheasant of the gentis Ceriornis (formerly Tragopan), characterized by having a pair of erectile fleshy horns on the head, the species are found in India, China, etc.
[1623. Cockeram, III. Tragoponadus, a bird in Ethiope greater then an Eagle, hauing hornes like a Goate.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Tragopanas.]
1831. Gould, Birds fr. Himalaya, lxii. The genus Tragopan.
1847. Carpenter, Zool., § 431. The Tragopans seem to connect the Pheasants with the Turkeys.
1882. Athenæum, 27 May, 671/1. Additions made to the [Zool. Soc.] menagerie during April…: a pair of black-headed tragopans (Ceriornis melanocephala);… a male Cabot’s tragopan (Ceriornis Caboti).
