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Identifier: indianduckstheir00bake (find matches)
Title: The Indian ducks and their allies
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Baker, E. C. Stuart (Edward Charles Stuart), 1864-1944 Lodge, George Edward, ill Grnvold, Henrik, 1858-1940, ill Keulemans, J. G. (John Gerrard), 1842-1912, ill Green, J., lithographer Bombay Natural History Society
Subjects: Ducks Ducks Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Bombay) : Published by the Bombay Natural History Society London : R.H. Porter Calcutta and Simla : Thacker, Spink, and Co. Bombay : Thacker and Co.
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ly resort to the same few feet of groundwhen enter i no- or lea vino: the water. 40 INDIAN DUCKS. The duck commences its moult in September or early October, andthis once commenced is extremely rapid ; the quills—both rectrices andflight-quills—come away all together, and the bird is incapable of risingmore than a foot or so from the grouiid for about a fortnight, by whichtiuie the wing-quills are sufficiently advanced to enable them to flutterfrom one perch to another, or, in exceptional cases, to take short flights.The soft feathers come after the quills, though a few new breast- and back-feathers may sometimes show even before the quills fall. The contrast between the glossy new feathers and the dull blackishold ones is very great, and one can hardly believe that it is the same bird.The natives say that, jirior to the moulting, these ducks all retir(^ toluorasses lying in absolutely impenetrable forest and cane-brake, and thereremain until they are once more able to lly. > I
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,T-;^ a Z)Q Q -^ Ql c: c UJ g RHODONESSA CARYOlHYLLACEA. 41 Genus EHODOiSESSA. The genus Rlwdonessa, like the preceding, consists o£ but one species,which species is confined to Indian limits. In adult or seini-ndult birdsthe colour of the head is sufficient to define it at a glance ; should, however,the bird be in its first plumage, reference must be made to its lorealfeathering, as mentioned in the key above. (7) RHODONESSA CARYOPHYLLACEA.THE PINK-HEADED DUCK. Anas caryophyllacea, Jerdon, B. I. iii, p. 800 ; Hume, Nesis Sf Eggs, p. 644 ; FairbanJc, ,Str. Featli. iv, p. 264; Davidson, ibid, vii, p. 9o ; BcdJ, ibid. p. 232; Hume, ibid. p. 492 ; id. ibid, viii, p. 801 ; Hume ^- Mar. Game-B. iii, pp. 174, 435 ; Barnes, B. of Bom. p. 404.Ehodonessa caryophyllacea, Ball, Str. Feath. ii, )>. 438 ; Hume, ibid, viii, p. llo; id. Cat. no. 960; Butler, Str. Featli. ix, p. 437; Jieid, ibid, x, p. 81; Hume d- Mar. Game-B. iii, pp. 173, 435; Oates, B. of Brit. Burm. ii, p. 284 ; A. Taylor, tS

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