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Identifier: gameshorewaterbi00leme (find matches)
Title: Game, shore, and water birds of India
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Le Messurier, Augustus, 1837-1916
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Publisher: Calcutta : Thacker, Spink London : W. THacker
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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igate-birds show adecided tendency towards Raptores. Feet more or less fully webbed. Legs placed far back. Plumagethick, close, with quantity of down. Hind toe small or wanting. (A) The young following the parent as soon as hatched.Tribe LAMELL1ROSTRES. Lamella = a small plate; rostrum = a bill. Food chiefly vegetable. Broad bill, covered with soft skin andedged with thin lamellae. The tip alone horny. Family PHCENICOPTERIDJE. Neck and leg of great length. Bill suddenly bent down. Havefleshy tongue and anatomical structure of Ducks. Found in warmerparts of the world. Genus PHCENICOPTERUS. (PoiviKOTTTfpos = red-feathered. Bill high at base and suddenly bent down. First and second quillssubequal and longest. Fifth remix present in wing. 944. Phoenicopterus antiquus. The Common Flamingo.Bag-hans, Raj-hans, India; Pukonga (Telugu); Pu-nari (Tamil). $ 52; 10 lbs. ? 42. Legs rose-red. Bill rosy, black tip.Plumage rosy white. Quills black.—Young mixed brown and dusky. 102 piicenicopterim:.
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P1KENIC0PTERUS.—CYGNUS. 103 Phcenicopterus minor. The Smaller Flamingo. c? 33 to 34. ? 30. Legs deep red. Bill red, tip black.—Inwinter : Pale rosy.—In summer : Bright rose, with cherry-colouredplumes on scapulars. (S. F. i. 35.) Family CYGNID^. Lengthened neck, but short legs. Bill high at base and of equalbreadth throughout. Of very large size. Feed on seeds, roots ofwater-plants, and also on grass. Sexes alike, no seasonal change. Genus CYGNUS. kvkvos = a Swan. Bill covered with short fleshy core that extends in a point to the eyeon each side. Nostrils more or less in middle of bill, rather obliqueand oval. Second and third quills equal and longest. Hind toe shortand without any marginal lobe. Cygnus olor. The Mute Swan.(The Tame Swan n of Europe.) Olor = a Swan, in classical Latin, especially in poetry. Perhaps a Spanish word.Cf. Welsh alarch.Penr, Punjab; Koday, Yarkand. ^551; 15 lbs. ? 53; 13 lbs. Legs black. Bill red-orange.Plumage white, with cream or buff tinge. Tail co

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