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Identifier: handbooktogamebiog02ogil (find matches)
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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ick back to the house; we were luckily successful inrearing it. A long and interesting account follows of thebringing up of this bird, which showed remarkable intelligenceand affection for its human foster-parents. Nest.—Placed in a tree, and composed of sticks and twigs. THE BLACK PENELOPES. GENUS PENELOPINA. Pcnelopina, Reichenb. Tauben. p. 152 (1862). Type. P. nigra (Fraser). Sexes differ from one another in plumage. Top of the headfeathered, but the feathers do not form a crest. The width of the upper mandible is greater than the height.Throat and fore-neck naked^ with a median wattle in the male. Tail composed of tivelve feathers, rather long and rounded ;the outer pair being about two-thirds of the length of themiddle pair. First primary flight feather much the shortest: eighth aboutequal in length to the tenth ; ninth slightly the longest. (In the immature male the wing is of quite a different shape,the first primary flight-feather being shorter than the second. PLATE XXXVina
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BLACK PENELOPE THE BLACK PENELOPES. 233 which is about equal to the tenth, and the sixth is sligTitly thelongest.) Tarsus longer than the middle toe and claw. Only one species is known. L THE BLACK PENELOPE. PENELOPINA NIGRA. Penelope niger, Fraser, P. Z. S. 1850, p. 246^ pi. xxix.Penelopina nigra, Reichenb. Tauben, p. 152 (1862); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 503 (1893).(Hat XXXV11 a )Adult Male.—The whole plumage black glossed with darkgreen or bluish-green ; the under-parts, especially the belly,browner and less strongly glossed. Naked space round eyepurple; throat, fore-part of neck, and large wattle red. Bill,legs, and feet red. Total length, 25 inches; wing 9-3; tail,II ; tarsus, 28-3 ; middle toe and claw, 2*6-28. Adult Female.—IMay be distinguished by having the feathersof the crown and back of the neck black edged with brown ;the rest of the upper-parts barred with rufous and black ; thechest sandy-brown, indistinctly mottled with black ; the breastand sides

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  • bookyear:1896
  • bookdecade:1890
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Ogilvie_Grant__W__R___William_Robert___1863_1924
  • booksubject:Game_and_game_birds
  • bookpublisher:London___E__Lloyd
  • bookcontributor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History_Library
  • booksponsor:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library
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