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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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age at the drinking places it may be suspectedthat they have young somewhere near, and no shooting shouldbe done. The eggs are laid in a scrape on the ground, occasionallywith a scanty lining, and are usually two, rarely more or fewer.They are of long shape and blunt at both ends—this peculiarform of egg being characteristic of the eggs of the sand-grousefamily — and the ground-colour varies, being greyish - white,pinkish stone-colour, cream, or olive-brown. The spots aredark brown and dull mauve, their intensity and amount varyingvery much. These sand-grouse sleep at night on the ground, like all thegroup, selecting some open place, and Hume remarks on theirextreme watchfulness. They pack closely at such times, notscattering as they do during the noonday siesta, and no doubtfind that many heads are better than one in the matter ofkeeping a look-out; at any rate, they seem never to fall into theclutches of the ordinary four-footed vermin, though nativefowlers catch them sometimes.
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-^ ZD <£.CDLU z: LUCO CD Cd SPOTTED SAND-GROUSE 147 These birds weigh about eight ounces, the cocks runningheavier; they also have the long feathers in the tail about aninch longer than the hens. Although a resident with us, this sand-grouse is not con-fined to India, inhabiting also central and south-west Asia anda large part of Africa ; it is, in fact, truly the common sand-grouse, having the widest range in the family. Being so notice-able and well known a bird in India, it has many names—Bukhttifar, Kumar-tit and Kuliar—as well as the one abovegiven in Hindustani, Pakorade or Pokundi in Marathi. Jampolanka in Telugu, Kal-kondari in Tamil, and Kal-gowjal liakiin Canarese, while in Sind the names are Butahur and Batohun,and among the Bheels Popandi is used. Spotted Sand-grouse. Pteroduriis senegalliis. Nandu katinga, Sindi. It is not often that a bird is named from a peculiarity in thehens plumage alone, but that is the case with the present one,in which only the hen is spot

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