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Title: Foreign birds for cage and aviary
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Butler, Arthur Gardiner, 1844-1925
Subjects: Cage birds
Publisher: London, "The Feathered world"
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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jyhaps nalalk). The male closely resembles that sex of C. indica^ butthe female has the neck, upper back, and breast coffee-coloured (■■ rufous-cinnamon —Salvadori); the uppertail-coverts and central tail-feathers piue cinnamon; andthe under tail-coverts similar and without blackish tips.It, is about liu, shorter than C. indica. Hab., ChristmasIsland. Dr. C. W. Andrews says ( Monograjih of ChristmasIsland, p. 39) : The Ground-Pigeon is by far themost brightly coloured of the birds of Olmstmas Island.It usually feeds on the ground, and can riui rapidly.Though generally seen in pairs, small flocks sometimesoccur, particularly near water. The food consists ofsmall fruits. The nest is said to be placed in tlucketsof screw-pine (Pandaiiiis). but I never saw either it orthe eggs. At pairing time the males fight fiercely, andare said to kill one another occasionally. Yomig birdsare seen in April. In spite of the brightness of thecolouring this bird is difficult to see, the green of the
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Indian Green Doves. 288 FOREIGN BIRDS FOR CAGE AND AVIARY. back and chestnut-brown of the breast matching veryclosely the colom-s of the leaves and soil. A specinien of this Dove reached the Gardens inRegents Park in October, 1903. Beonze-winged Pigeon (Phapi- chahuptera). The adult maJe has the anterior half of the crownochreous buff; behind this ie a dull purplish bajid whichextends on to the sides of the crown; posterior half ofthe crown, back of neck, and upper siuface brownish-grey; the scapularies, feathers of back, rump, and uppertail-coveiie with paler edges; three outer rowS of wing-covcrte with large patches of metallic emerald-gieen,changing in certain lights to burnished fiery copper;the inner seondaries with large patches of shiningviolet, changing to greenish Prussian-blue ; inner websof flights reddish-cinnamon towards the base; twocentral tail-feathers like the back, the remainder greyerexcepting at tip and with subterminal black belts ; loresblack, an angular buffish

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