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Title: Birds
Identifier: cu31924000100358 (find matches)
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Oates, Eugene William, 1845-1911; Blandford, William Thomas, 1832-1905
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, Taylor and Francis
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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CATREUS. 83 Coloration. Male. Crown and crest brown, each feather edged and tipped paler; sides o£ head, where feathered, iacludiug the
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Fig. 15.—Head of C. walUahi, J, ^. ear-coverts, brown, slightly more rufous; neck all round, except behind, chin, and throat sullied white; back of neck and upper back black, the feathers barred and tipped with white; wing- coverts pale-shafted and barred buffy white and black, the colours broken up and mottled on the greater coverts and scapulars ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts dull rufous, each feather with a subterminal black band, glossed with green ; quills dark brown, irregularly edged and speckled with buff ; tail-feathers with alter- nating subequal broad cross-bars of white or buffi and black mottled with grey, and replaced in parts by chestnut on the inner webs of the outer fearlieis, generally a narrow detached black stripe in front of each black bar, the white or buff bars often speckled with black; breast and flanks buff or buffy white, the feathers barred with black; middle of abdomen blackish, lower abdomen grey tinged with rufous on lower flanks and under tail-coverts,* Female. Feathers of crown and crest dark brown, with buff edges ; supercilia and sides of head brown, with broader whitish edges to the feathers ; chin and throat white ; neck all round and upper breast black, with broad whitish edges; feathers of the upper tack barred black and chestnut, with whitish shaft-stripes and tips; wing-coverts mixed black and buff, whit(?-shafted, and with whitish edges; scapulars and greater coverts with whitish ends ; quills black, barred with buff on the outer webs and with rufous on the inner ; lower back and rump greyish brown, mixed with black and buff; tail brown, mottled and blotched with black, and with rather narrow, irregular, more or less black-edged whitish cross-bars ; lower breast rufous, the feathers pale-edged ; abdomen and lower tail-coverts isabelline, tnor& or less with black crescentic subterminal bars, especially on the lower flanks and tail-coverts. Bill pale horny; nude sides of head bright red; irides yellowish hazel; legs and feet brown (Jerdon). Length of males 34 to 40 (some are said to reach 46); tail 20 to 23; wing 10; tarsus 29; bill from gape 1-4. Length of females 24 to 29-5 ; tail about 14-5; wing 9; tarsus 2-6. Distribution. From the neighbourhood of Khatmandu in Nepal to Charaba, at elevations of from 4000 or 5000 to 10,000 feet in the outer Himalayas, not in the drier upper valleys. g2

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