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Identifier: indiansportingbi00finn (find matches)
Title: Indian sporting birds
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Finn, Frank, 1868-1932 Hume, Allan Octavian, 1829-1912 Marshall, Charles Henry Tilson, 1841-
Subjects: Birds -- India Game and game-birds -- India
Publisher: London : Francis Edwards
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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May and at the foot of one of their favourite Dangsscratching a slight hole and laying small eggs for their size,not larger than a common fowls, and dirty-white or pale-greyish, with a few rusty spots in most cases. The cockas well as the hen looks after the brood. The native nameexpressing the characteristic note is the most widely used, but inthe hills north of Mussoorie is replaced by Bunchil or Herril,while in Chamba and Kullu Chaiiian is this birds title. Stones Pheasant. PJtasicaiHs elegans. Stones pheasant is one of the numerous subspecies of ourcommon European pheasant (P. coJchicus), and the hen is notnoticeably distinct from the female of that bird ; the cock alsois likely to be considered the same on a casual view, but it reallyrather approaches the Chinese ring-necked race (P. torquatiis),having the same lavender back and patches on the wings. Thereis, however, no white ring round the neck, and the breast is notcoppery-gold as in the common pheasant and ring-neck, but dark
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MKS. HUMES PHEASANT 201 green. Thus a broad band of richly glossed dark colour runsright down the under-parts, completely separating the brassy-chestnut of the flanks. From Mrs. Humes pheasant, the only onesimilar in form found with us, the present bird is distinguishedat once by not having the white bars on the wing. Stones pheasant is found at an elevation of about 5,000 feetin the Northern Shan States, as well as at Momien in Yunnan,and in Szechuen. Its habits present nothing worthy of specialmention ; in Yunnan it was found frequenting grassy hills ; andit may be remarked that the pheasants of this type naturallyaffect grass, reeds, and scrub-jungle, not high forest. The Chinese ring-neck, which, subject to local variations,ranges from Kobdo to Canton, is the best all-round sporting birdin the world; it is now thoroughly mixed up with the originalpheasant brought by the ancients into Europe from Asia Minor,and most English pheasants show traces of intermixture with it.It has been

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