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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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from the hills of South Tenasserim, though hedoubted its actual occurrence there. As a matter of fact, how-ever, it is very difficult to draw exact lines in the distribution ofskulking forest birds like partridges of this type, and SouthTenasserim forms the northern limit of several Malayan species. The present bird is closely allied to the green-legged species,and also has green legs, although Hume thought they were redand figured them accordingly; I speak from examining livespecimens at the London Zoo. The two species, however,present marked distinctions in marking and colouring, the presentbird having distinct orange-rusty cheek patches and a plain chest-nut band beneath the black-speckled white throat. The black onthe buff sides takes the form of distinct vertical bars, and that onthe brown back is in very fine pencilling, finer than any found inour other hill-partridges, and recalling the delicate markings ofsome ducks. These two green-legged forms make a small *Perdix on plate.
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RED-CKESTED PARTRIDGE 251 separate group of their own ; the present species has the usualhabits, hving in coveys and skulking in forest cover, and feedingon the usual mixed diet. It is, however, not particular aboutelevation, going down to the bases of the hills, though notfound off theiu. The note is described as a double whistle. Red-crested Partridge. RoUulus roiilroul. See-oul, Malay. To call this bird a wood-quail, as Hume does, is distinctlymisleading, for there is nothing specially quail-like about it,since it closely resembles the hill-partridges in size and shape,being round and dumpy, with very short tucked-in tail, and,nevertheless, high on the legs. It has not, however, the longclaws of the wood-partridges, and the cock would look amongthem like a rajah among coolies, with his bushy crimson aigretteand suit of deep-blue velvet. Before the crest springs a bunchof bristles, and this and the red eye-ring and legs are common toboth sexes ; otherwise the cock and hen could hard

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