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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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the plume trade. This use, of course, needs regulating,and the killing of the bird ought to be absolutely prohibited,though it might be permitted to snare it in such a way as notto injure it, and release it after cutting off a two-foot length ofthe eye-bearing plumes, which could well be spared. Crested Argus. Bheinardtius ocellatiis. As a local race of this magnificent bird, previously onlyknown from Tonquin, has of late been found to occur at Pahangin the Malay Peninsula, it may claim brief notice here. It isa bird of general speckled-brown coloration, like the true argus,and the hens are not unlike, except that that of the crestedspecies has a strong bushy crest at the back of the head like hermate ; the head is also more feathered in both sexes. The cockhas ordinary-sized wings without eye-spots, but a most ex-travagant tail, several feet long, with broad but tapering feathersmarked with brown eye-spots with white centres ; a single one ofthese feathers would easily identify him.
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00 IDLU CD or -WLxJ tn BED JUNGLE-FOWL 171 Red Jui\glc-fo>vl. Gallus ferrugineus. Jungli moorghi, Hindustani. Just like a bantam is the verdict generally passed on theappearance of honest chanticleer in his wild state, whether theobserver be an Anglo-Indian shikari or a lady visiting the LondonZoo ; and the comparison is apt enough on the whole, for red jungle-fowl, which are simply wild common fowls, have the red-and-blackcolour in the cock and partridge-brown in the hen, so familiar inmany bantams, and are of noticeably small size compared withmost tame breeds. They are over bantam weight, however, cocks averaging abouttwo pounds and hens about half that; and the tail, which is verylong in the cock, is carried trailing, not cocked up as in tamefowls. This applies to all kinds of jungle-fowl, none of whichstrut like the tame bird, and this familiar species has, at anyrate in Indian specimens, a particularly slinking gait. Burmesebirds have much more the appearance of tame poultry

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