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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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ny elevation up to 4,500 feet;they especially frequent densely-w^ooded ravines and nullahs, andit has been noticed that the green-legged hill-partridge (Tropico-perdix chloropics) and the present bird are never found in the samevalley, which points to some competition or conflict betweenthem. In Pegu, where Oates observed this, it was found thatthese hill-partridges were only found on the eastern slopes of thehills, the western declivities being only clothed with jungle toothin to meet their requirements in the w^ay of cover. Here theywere living almost entirely on hard seeds. At Thoungyah, Humes collector, Darling, found them socommon that he saw two or three coveys every day ; from six toten formed a covey, but they were not easy to get. They uttereda soft cooing whistle as they ran about scratching amongstthe leaves for their food of insects, little snails, and seed, butwhen treed by a dog their whistle became shriller and higheruntil another answered. The sight of a man drove them
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GREEN-LEGGED HILL-PARTRIDGE 2i9 scattering into the dense underbrush. Tickell, who firstdescribed the species, says they cannot be flushed more thanonce, and when they had settled in the shelter of a bush theywould squat till they were within a yard of the muzzle of hisgun. He heard them now and then emit a purring note whencreeping about in the cover. Except that it is believed tobreed in May, nothing is known about the nesting of thisspecies. Grccn-lcggcd Hill-Partridge. Tropicoperdix chluropus. The green-legged hill partridge is easily recognized, not only byits green legs, but by the coloration of the flanks, which, insteadof being grey with white spots, as is usual in the group, arelight reddish brown boldly marked with black. The upperthroat is white, but the lower chestnut, speckled with black asin the rufous-throated species, and the breast is really brown likethe back, which may easily lead to confusion with the brown-breasted hill-partridge so-called, which often lives in th

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