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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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Eggs/ viz.. length from 172 to 20 inches, and breadth Irom14 to IG. The average of oAer 150 eggs taken by me is, however, larger,and measures ISi x l)2 inches. The duck is a very close sitter, and will not move from her eggs untilvery closely approached : indeed she may sometimes be caught by hand.Mr. Brooks thus caught a duck on her nest, which was placed at thebottom of a hollow in a dead >tump. The drake keeps much to the tree where the nest is. and spends muchof his time alongside his mate on the nearest comfortable j)erch, but I havenever been able to ascertain whether he assists in the inculcation. In different parts of the country thi>v breed from late June up toSeptember : in Eastern Bengal principally in Jiily. in West Bengal lateJuly and early August, in Western India later still. Barnes says that inEajputana they breed in August and September. In Gevlon it i- one of the l)ird- that does not alter it< habits of breedingmuch, antl there tlie\ lav in JniH and Julv. 5
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k // CO TADOKNA COllNUTA. 109 Genus TADOENA. This genus consists o£ two species, one of which has a wide rangethroughout Europe, Asia, and Africa, and the other being confined toAnstraha, the Moluccas, and Papuan Islands. The male bird possesses afleshy knob at the base of the upper mandible, which is highly develo^^eddurino- the b^eedino-season. (20) TADORNA CORNUTA.THE SHELDRAKE. Tadorna cornuta, Hume, Str. Feath. i, p. 260; vii, p. 492; viii, p, 115; id. Cai. no. 956; Hume Sj-Mar. Game-B.m, p. 136; Barnes, B. of Bom. p. 400 ; Salvadori, Cat. B. J/, xxvii, p. 171 ; Young, Jour. B. X. H. S. xii, p. 573; BetJuim, ibid, xiii, p. 187; Incjlis, ibid, xiv, p. 393; BJanford, Fauna B. I. iv, p. 427.Tadorna vulpanser, Jerdon, B. I. \\i, p. 794. Description. Adult male.— Head and upper part of theneck dark glossygreen; round the lower neck a broad white collar; a band of rich chestnutcovers the upper part of the back, the space before the bend of the wing, andthe upper part of the breast;

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