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Title: The edible and game birds of British India, with its dependencies and Ceylon. With woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Murray, James A
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Publisher: London, Trübner & Co. Bombay, Education Society's Press
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Jerd., J. A. S. Beng., 1870, p. 60; Gould, B. Asia vii.pi. 47, is another species of which much is not known. It is said tooccur in the Naga and Assam hills: the forecrown and occiput is black;lores, orbital region, cheeks, chin, throat and nude parts adjoining goldenyellow; back of the head, neck all round and breast bright brick red or lake ; ablack post orbital and gular band ; upper surface of the body rich maroon red,with white ocelli on a black ground at the tip of each feather; flanks moreyellowish ; belly grey ; tail dark brown. Gen. Iih.2igvn.i^—Wagkr, Bill short, stout; tail of 14 feathers ; tarsus of male with several spurs;head sub-crested; neck feathers elongated. 72. Ithaginis cruentUS (Hardiv), Gould, B. Asia, pt. iii.pi. 3 ; Jerd., B, Ind. iii. p. 522, No. 807 ; Elliott, Moti. Phas. i. pi. lO;Hume and Marsh., Game Bij-dsi. p. 155. Phasianus cruentus, Hardw., Linn. ITHAGINIS. 57 Trans, xiii. p. 237. Pliasianus Gardncri, Hardiv. (ihc female).—The GreenBlood Pheasant.
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Head of Ithaginis cruentus. Forehead black ; crown buff; crest dull grey, with a mesial streak of buff;lores and cheeks, also a broad ring round the red orbital region black ; baseof the bill, chin and throat blood red ; lower throat brownish to black, wiiha mesial stripe of greenish buff down each feather ; ear-coverts black, withhuffish stride; hind neck and upper surface of the body dark grey, eachfeather striped mesially with buff, which is again bounded by black ; wingcoverts the same; tail grey, passing into greyish-white at the tips; theshafts white and the basal three-fourths of the feathers broadly margined withblood red ; breast, sides of the abdomen and flanks pale green with lightershafts; breast feathers with a blood red spot near the centre of cither margin ;centre of abdomen, thighs and vent dark brownish grey, with a greenishmesial stripe bounded by black; under tail coverts deep blood red, tipped withpale yellow. Bill brownish, black at tip and red at the base; irides

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