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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 bill, all the restbeing black from the nostrils to the tip, as is also in some casesthe ridge of the bill between the nostrils and the forehead. Theyellow generally stops short at or before the basal end of thenostrils, all across the beak, and never extends below the furtherend of them and even beyond that, as it does in the whooper.The young birds in this species are grey, and have flesh-colouron the bill where the old ones are yellow ; the weight is up totwelve pounds, little smaller than some whoopers. The firstundoubted Indian example of Bewicks swan was recorded byMr. E. C. S. Baker, in the Bombay Natural History SocietysJournal in 1908, vol. xvni. It was a fine adult bird, and hadbeen killed at Jacobabad, by Mr. McCulloch. In the winter of1910-1911, two more specimens turned up, one near Mardan,and another at Campbellpur, on December 30 and January 2respectively; both were adults apparently, and the exceptionalcold then prevailing no doubt, as Mr. Baker suggested in record-
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LUCD CD ID O > COMMON SNIPE 75 ing these specimens, had caused their appearance in our Hmits;at the same time he recorded the occurrence of a coupleof young whoopers, shot out of a flock of seven on the KabulRiver. It is very possible that a swan recently recorded as seennear Bharao, though not bagged, may have been of this species,as it is said to have had a small black bill. In any case, thereis now^ no doubt about the occurrence of Bewicks swan as anoccasional visitor to India, while probably Burma also is withinrange of its winter wanderings. In fact, as tbis bird has a moreeastern range than the whooper, at any rate in the breeding-season, it might be reasonably expected to come in at least asoften as that species ; its normal winter quarters in Asia, how-ever, are China and Japan, and in China it seems to be thecommonest swan at that season. In the west it ranges inwinter as far south as the Mediterranean. It has a quite different and less musical note tban thewhooper, resemb

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