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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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100 miles there was not even brushwood tobreak the monotony of rocky barrenness, and on the OongLung La Pass, leading from that lake valley to the Indus valleyat an elevation of 16,430 feet, in this case among grass and lowbushes. Ten eggs were in the clutch, but Prjevalsky says theKansu bird lays fifteen. The Tibetan-taken egg which Humeobtained was of a glossy uniform drab, pale, but slightly tingedat each end, especially the larger, with reddish brown. Snow-Partridge. Lerwa nivicola. Barf-ka-titar, Hindustani. When high up after mountain sheep and goats, on rockyground near the snow line, one may start a covey of dark birdswith conspicuous white patches on their wings, which spin awaywith grouse-like flight—evidently partridges of some kind, forthere are no true grouse anywhere in India even in theseHimalayan heights. These alpine partridges, the Leriva of theBhutanese, would be recognizable even if they lived amongothers, for their closely cross-pencilled plumage with chocolate
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