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Identifier: ediblegamebirdso00murr (find matches)
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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Marsh., Game. Birds GRUS. 119 ii. p. 4; Murray, Avif, Brit. Ind. ii. p. 6oO, No. 1278.—The Large White,Snow-wreath, or Siberian Crane. Plumage wholly white ; primaries black ; tertiaries white, much lengthenedand reaching to or beyond the end of the tail; nude parts of the face andlegs red ; hind head subcrested. In the young Mr. Hume (Game Birds ofIndia) says : There is no bare space about the face, the whole head and upperhalf of the neck are of a somewhat rusty buff, which is deepest on the headand cheeks, and paler on the chin and throat. Length, Male.— ^i to 56 inches; wing 23 to 26; expanse 90 to 99-5 ; tarsiII to 12 ; bill from gape 775 to 8. Females are smaller; irides pale yellow;bill brown; nasal membrane red. Hab.—k winter migrant to India; occurs in the N.-W. Provinces, Punjab,Sind, parts of the Central Provinces and the Himalayas ; also in Afghanistan,Eastern Turkistan and Siberia. Uncommon in Sind. I have never met withit. Mr. Hume has however seen and recorded it.
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Grus cinerea.148. Grus cinerea (Bechst.), Bodd. PL En. 769; Gould, B. Eur.pi. 270; Jerd., B. Ind. iii. p. 865 ; Sir. F. i. p. 235 ; iv. p. 15 ; Murray, 120 GRUID^. Hdbk., Zool, 8fc., Sind, p. 213; id., Veri. Zool. Swd, p. 237; Hume andMarsh., Ga??ie Birds iii. p. 92; Murray, Avif. Brit. Ind. p. 601, No. 1279.(KoonJ, Sind ; Kulling, N. India).—The Common Crane. Forehead to the middle of the crown covered with black hairy down,through which the red skin shows ; behind this nearly bare and entirely so forabout two inches on the nape, which is ash grey ; chin, throat and foreneckblack ; a broad white streak from behind the eye, extending along the back ofthe neck from below the nape and partly on the sides ; lores and cheeksblack ; upper and lower surface of the body dark bluish ashy ; greater wingcoverts dull black ; secondaries and tertiaries grey and tipped with black,the latter in texture resembling the plumes of the ostrich, narrowing to a point,forming an elegant tuft of loose fea

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