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Identifier: indianpigeonsdov00bake (find matches)
Title: Indian pigeons and doves
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Baker, E. C. Stuart (Edward Charles Stuart), 1864-1944 Grld, H. (Henrik), 1858-1940 Lodge, George Edward
Subjects: Pigeons -- India Birds -- India
Publisher: London : Witherby & Co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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er andmedian coverts black with yellow margins, broadest on the inner secondaries;innermost secondaries glossed with olive-green; under wing-coverts andaxillaries french-grey. Colours of soft parts. Legs and feet purplish pink, claws white, lowermandible to angle of gonys and upper mandible to just beyond nostril deepred, rest of bill dead white, strongly tinged with greenish blue. Iris buffypink; naked space round eye plumbeous green (Davison). The edges ofthe iris are orange. Measurements. Length about 10.5; tail 3.6; wing 6; tarsus .8;bill from gape .8 (Blanford). The series I have examined have wings varying between 5.85 in.( = 148.5 mm.) and 5.40 ( = 136.2 mm.), and average 5.65 in. ( = 143.5 mm.). Adult female. Has the cinnamon and maroon of the upper-parts replacedby dull olive-green and below by pale yellowish-green, more or less mixedwith grey on the abdomen. The crown from the fore-head to the nape isgrey, showing in good contrast to the greenish supercilia. The chin in some
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