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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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... ,, 199 Cheer Pheasant ,, 201 Bamboo Partridge ... ... ... ... ... ,, 221 Eggs of Western Tragopan, Brown Crake, Painted Quail, Tibetan Partridge, Spotted Sand-grouse, and Himalayan Snow-cock ... ... ... ,, 223 Burmese Francolin and Hybrid between Black and Painted Partridges ... ... ... ... ,, 23S Snow-Partridge ... ... ... ... ... ,, 241 Eggs of Rain-Quail, Sarus Crane, White-eyed Pocliard, and White-cheeked Hill-Partridge .. . ,, 247 Brown-breasted Hill-Partridge ... ... ... ,, 249 Charltons Hill-Partridge ,, 251 Red-crested Partridge ... ... ... ... ,, 253 Chestnut Wood-Partridge ... ... ... ... ,, 255 Jungle Bush-Quail ... ... ... ... ... „ 257 Rock Bush-Quail , 259 Painted Bush-Quail ,, 261 Blewitts Painted Bush-Quail 263 Common Quail ... ... ... ... ... ,, 265 Rain-Quail ,, 267 Painted Quail ,, 269 Indian Yellow-legged Button-Quail ... ... ,, 271 Burmese Yellow-legged Button-Quail ... ... ,, 273 Nicobar Yellow-legged Button-Quail ... ... ,, 275 Little Button-Quail ... 277
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INDIAN SPORTING BIRDS. Mallard. Alias hoscas. Nil-sir, Hindustani. Althouf:;h mallard are far from being generally distributedover our Eastern Empire, as being the wild ducks of the NorthernHemisphere generally, and the ancestors of most of our tameducks, they deserve to head the list of typical ducks, being alsothemselves the type of all and exemplifying several points whichmust be referred to by anyone dealing with the group. The lovely green head, white collar, chocolate breast, curledblack tail, and splendid wing-bar of blue and white are sodistinctive of the mallard drake that little need be said about hisplumage, which has for the most part a sober pencilled-greycoloration, beautifully setting off the brighter tints. But thefemale, whose plumage, as is usual in the most typical ducks,is of a mottled-brown tint, is naturally much like several others ;her distinguishing mark is the blue, white-edged wing-bar whichshe shares with the drake. This blue ribbon-mark will distinguishher

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