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Title: Illustrations of Indian ornithology : containing fifty figures of new, unfigured and interesting species of birds, chiefly from the south of India
Year: 1847 (1840s)
Authors: Jerdon, T. C. (Thomas Claverhill), 1811-1872 Kistnarajoo, C. V., lithographer R. E. B., lithographer Leonard, lithographer Miller, lithographer Linn, lithographer Hunt, Phineas R., 1816-1878, printer American Mission Press (Madras, India), printer Reeve Brothers, printer of plates
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: Madras : Printed by P.R. Hunt, American Mission Press
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le in having the chin, throat and cheeks white,in the rufous edgiags to the feathers being very indistiact, and the plumage generally beingof a darker hue. Length of a female 17; to 18 inches—weight lib., lOoz. After the first moult, the markings of the lower surface disappear, except a few onthe lower part of the abdomen and leg feathers, the plumage above becomes more of ablueish tinge, and the edgings and barrings disappear—with further moultings the shadeof the plumage above becomes still lighter, and of a slaty blue, the markings beneathvanish entirely, and the rufous tiut of the breast becomes paler. The accompanying figure was taken from a li\ing bii-d I had for some time inmy possession at Madras. ADDENDUM. J. HE Falco guttatus of G. II. Geat, recently* described in tlie Annals and Maga-ztne of iVa^Mr«?^«s^ry,Tol. llj page 371j appears to me tote identical witli, or at allevents very closely allied to, my Falco Shaheen. It is from tlie Phillipine Islands. * May 1843. XIU
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Cf^/et^e/^-u^ ^e^^^et./c J J^4ifryf,/^ Jy^/jyrjo d.V,V?K//>;««?,VVV ORD. LJTSESSORES. FAM. CEATEROPOBINjE.GEN. CRATEROPUS. PLATE XIII. CRATEROPUS DELESSERTI. WHITE BREASTED BABBLER. Synon.— C. Delesserti, Jerdon—Madras Journal Literature and Science, No. 25 Catal. No. 88. C. Griseiceps—Delessert. The genus Crateropus of Swainson appears to have been first defined by M.Lesson as Gar/wfoa;*, and has also, though subsequently to Swainsons definition, receivedthe name of Xanthocincla from Mr. Gould.—In my catalogue of Indian Birds publishedin the Madras Journal I ventured to join these three synonyms, and I see that they havebeen generally recognised as identical; but the name given by Lesson has been preferred,having been bestowed prior to the others, and the late rules acted on by Gray, Stricklandand others have enforced this has the first law of Zoological nomenclature. The white breasted Babbler was first named by myself in the Catalogue beforealluded to from a single spe

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