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Title: A hand-book to the game-birds
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Ogilvie-Grant, W. R. (William Robert), 1863-1924
Subjects: Game and game-birds
Publisher: London : E. Lloyd
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ly retiring habits of thisbird that so few specimens have as yet been obtained. We haveseveral times tried to induce friends shooting in the neighbour-hood of Masuri to look for and collect specimens, but so farwithout result, probably,as Mackinnon remarked, because thesebirds are very small, and involve an immense deal of bother inshooting, and when bagged, prove poor eating ! Nest and Eggs.—Nothing is known. THE BLOOD PHEASANTS. GENUS ITHAGENES. Ithagutis, Wagler, Isis, 1832, p. 1228. Type, /. cruefttus (Hardwicke). Tail composed of fourteen feathers, rather long, about four- fifihs of the length of the wing and slightly rounded, the outer feathers being somew^hat shorter than the middle pair. First flight-feather much shorter than the second, which isabout equal to the tenth ; fifth rather the longest. Bill very short and stout. A large naked patch round the eye.Plumage long and soft. Male with a full crest, and thefeathers of the body pointed. PLATE XYl) /T i?^ itr- 1 ■( ■ u
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BL00D-PHEASAN1, THE BLOOD TIIEASANTS. 215 Feet of the male armed with two or more pairs of spurs;females devoid of these appendages or widi a pair of bluntknobs. Plumage quite different in the two sexes. Only three species are known. I. THE BLOOD PHEASANT. ITHAGENES CRUENTUS. Phasia7ius cruentus, Hardwicke, Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 237 (1822) (male).Fhasianus gardnen^ Hardwicke, Tr. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 167 (1827) (female).Ithagifiis cruentus, W^-gXcr, Isis, 1S32, p. 1228 ; Elliot, ATonogr. Phasian. ii. pi. 30 (1872); Hume and Marshall, Game Birds of India, p. 155, pi. (1878).Ithagenes crue7itus, Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 268 (1893). (Plate XVII.) Adult Male.—Crown buff or rufous-buff; upper-pans grey,with white shaft-stripes, washed with green on the wings ; longermedian wing-coverts green ; upper tail-coverts widely marginedwith crimson; forehead and feathers round the eye black ;chin, throat, and cheeks crimson ; rest of the under-parts shad-ing into pale green, dark

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