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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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d marks it out from any other found with us ;on the sides and lower back the chestnut is diversified by blackmarkings, which in the latter region indeed obscure the red ;the upper back is variegated with black and white. The onlysex difference is the presence of spurs on the legs of the male;the legs themselves are green. As in so many of our game-birds, more than one spur may be present. Like the red-crested wood-partridge this is a Malayan bird,gaining a place in the Indian list by penetrating into SouthTenasserira ; but it does not range further east than Sumatrain the other direction. It is a lover of heavy jungle, where itfeeds on berries, seeds, and insects ; but the places where Mr.Humes collectors found it were so lonely that there were noinhabitants, and no paths except those made by the local biggame ; and they never even saw the birds they got until theywere caught. Even the Malays knew nothing about it, so thatthis, one of our handsomest small game-birds, remains eminently
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/y / c^:^ \ %\ f / f JUNGLE BUSH-QUAIL 253 a subject for research. A hen bird weighed only eiglit ounces,but males would probably be a little heavier ; but the bird is nota big one, measuring well under a foot. Jungle Bush-Quail. Perdiculn asiatica* Lowa, Hindustani. This funny, thick-set, stout-billed little bird, though not sobig as the ordinary quail, is really a pigmy relative of the ordinarygrey partridge, which it much resembles in many of its ways,even to the detail of getting into a temper when blown upon ina cage. Like larger partridges, it has an easily distinguishable,though small, tail, and oven a rudimentary spur on the legs of thecock. The bright chestnut head will distinguish it from all ourother quails, except its near relative next to be mentioned; both henand cock have this ginger headpiece, but the rest of the hensplumage is a simple light brown, while the cock sports a z;ebrawaistcoat of black and white. Young birds have the plumagebrown with pale streaks, and no r

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