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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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le to prepare skins of his speci-mens, or that he should forgo eating them if rations are short ;it is sufficient for purposes of identification if the head and a INTRODUCTION vii. wing and foot be dried and if possible treated with some skin-preservative—in fact, for very big birds the head alone will beenough, and in the case of snipe the tail affords the best characterfor discrimination. The scientific names used are those of the Fauna of BritishIndia bird volumes, now the standard work on general Indianornithology, and where a species does not occur in these thenaming of the British Museum Catalogue of Birds has beenfollowed. Where the scientific name on the plate differs fromthese the fact has been indicated.^ Frank Finn. Errata.—This has been overlooked in the case of the Bar-tailed Godwit(Limosa riifa on the plate) ; and the plate of the White-crested Kalij,referredto in the foot-note on p. 183, is not one of those in this book. Onp. 205, also,Cenon/t5 should read Tnujopan.
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- o LIST OF PLATES. Mallard ... Facing page 1 Spotted-bill 5 Gadwall >» 7 Bronze-capped Duck ... ... ,, 9 Pintail ... ,, 11 Shoveller !. 13 Common Teal ... ,, 15 Garganey ,, 17 Clucking Teal ,, 19 Marbled Teal ,, 21 Andaman Teal »1 23 Pink-headed Duck Facing list of plates Wigeon ... Facing ijage 25 Common Pochard 27 White-eyed Pochard ... 29 Tufted Pochard 33 Scaup ... 35 Ked-crested Pochard ... 37 Golden-eye 39 Smew ... 41 Goosander 43 Comb-Duck 47 Cotton-Teal 49 Buddy Sheldrake 51 Common Sheldrake ... 53 White-winged Wood-Duck ... 55 Small Whistler 57 Large Whistler 59 Bar-headed Goose 61 Grey-lag Goose 63 Pink footed Goose 65 Bean-Goose 67 White-fronted Goose 69 Dwarf Goose ... 71 Mute Swan and Whooper 73 Bewicks Swan 75 Common Snipe and Jack-Snipe 77 INDIAN SPOETING BIEDS Crake Pintail Snipe ... Eastern Solitary Snipe Wings and tails of Wood-, Eastern Solitary, Fantail and Pintail SnipesWood-Snipe ...WoodcockPainted Snipe ... Black-tailed Godwit, summer and winter

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