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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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ff-brown,with tail like bunch of fur. ( Stray Feathers/ ii. 276.) PTEEOCLES. / B. Hind toe raised above level of others or ivantinij. Family PTEROCLID^E. Saxd-Grouse. Found in Southern Europe, Africa, and Asia. Placed by Jerdon as adistinct natural family. Gray groups them as a subfamily of Tetrao-nidae, with which they only agree in having feathered tarsus. Tarsus feathered in front. Wings long and pointed. Hind toevery short or none. Orbits more or less nude. Plumage pale yellow,variegated with brown. Tail of 16 feathers. Flight rapid. Feed onseeds. Genus PTEEOCLES. iTTepoi* = a feather; /cAetr = a bar. Male uniformly coloured.—Female more or less spotted or barred.First and second quills longest. Toes bare. Minute hind toe raised. (i.) With tail-feathers graduated. 799. Pterocles arenarius. The Large or Black-belliedSand-Grouse. Arenarius = pertaining to sand, arena. Bhut-titur, Buk-tit, Upper India; Banchur, Peshawar; Sialism (Persian),K/iorassan; Bagrikara (Turkish), N. Persia.
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Jerome-Khojak, 1879. S 13itol4f; 18 oz. $ 13 to 14. Legs dull yellow. Billbluish. Central tail-feathers slightly lengthened. Primaries slate, with c2 8 pteroclim:. black shafts. Abdomen and breast-band black.—Male above mottledashy and fulvous. Orange wing-band. Chin deep chestnut. Blacktriangle on throat. Breast fawn.—Female: Breast, head, and abovefulvous, banded brown. Chin fulvous, with black edges and specks. 800. Pterocles fasciatus. The Painted Sand-Grouse. Fasclo (no perf.), atum = to swathe or envelop in bands. Bhut-titur, Bhut-bur, N. W. P.; Palki, Belgaum; Handeri, S. India; Pokundi(Marathi); Kal gowjal haki (Kanarese), Mysore; Sonda polanka (Telugu). <J 10^ to Hi; 6 to 1\ oz. ? 10 to 10£. Legs dull yellow.Bill red. Primaries brown-black, with pale edgings. Abdomen black,with crescentic white marks.—Male above yellow, banded brown. Fourstripes on forehead. Triple breast-band. Wing-coverts banded black,edged white.—Female : Breast and above finely barred. Abdomen

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  • bookyear:1888
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Le_Messurier__Augustus__1837_1916
  • bookpublisher:Calcutta___Thacker__Spink_
  • bookpublisher:_London___W__THacker
  • bookcontributor:University_of_Illinois_Urbana_Champaign
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