Birds: p. [vii]-xiiiTaylor & Francis, 1889 - Birds |
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abdomen Asia Assam B. M. xxii band Barnes bars Bill black bill from gape Birds Burm Birds Ceyl blackish brown Blyth breeding-season breeds brownish buff Burma Butler C. H. T. Marshall Ceylon chestnut claw Coloration crown culmen dark brown Davison Distribution edges eggs feathers female flanks fore neck forehead genus green Habits Himalayas hind neck Hume & Dav Hume & Marsh ibid Ibis inner irides J. A. S. B. xxxix Jerdon Jour Legge legs and feet Linn lower back lower tail-coverts mandible Manipur N. H. Soc nape nest Oates in Hume's Ogilvie Grant outer webs pale paler plumage primaries quills rectrices rufous rump S. F. iv S. F. vii S. F. xi Salvadori scapulars Scully secondaries shaft-stripes sides of head species spots streaked Syst tail tarsus tertiaries throughout tinged tips upper breast upper tail-coverts whitish wing wing-coverts wing-lining winter yellow Young birds
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Page v - are distinguished by small differences of plumage or measurement, or which are connected by intervening links with the typical form. Such races or subspecies, as they are called, have not, as a rule, been separately numbered and described in the present work, but they have received due notice and their characters have been explained.
Page 430 - cackling call, and is, when undisturbed, very familiar and unwary. It breeds generally in old trees, often at some distance from water, occasionally in ruined houses, temples, old chimneys, and the like, laying eight or ten
Page 336 - of the lower mandible smeared with bluish black; pouch dull purple, blotched and spotted with bluish black ; eyelids and skin round the eye orange-yellow, skin in front of
Page v - The precise number of species is naturally dependent on a personal factor, some writers being more liberal than others in admitting the claims to specific rank of races
Page 381 - nape slaty black ; chin and throat white; rest of head and neck ferruginous red, paler and buff on sides of head and middle of fore neck ; long feathers overhanging upper breast buffy white, streaked with black and chestnut ; lower hind neck, back, rump and upper tail-coverts,
Page 69 - tertiaries, mostly barred black and buff, a few of the outer median secondary coverts black glossed with green and purple : primaries and their coverts pale chestnut, secondaries black : tail dark brown ; breast and flanks dark glossy green : thighs buff ; abdomen and downy lower tail-coverts blackish brown.
Page 68 - feathers with black borders, coppery inner areas, and green shaft-stripes, these pass on the rump into the bronze-green of the train, changing in the middle in certain lights into coppery bronze, each feather, except the outermost at each side and the longest plumes, ending in an
Page 277 - like back, but with white borders outside and at the end ; lower back and rump dark brown, with white edges to the feathers; upper tail-coverts the same, but the white borders are much wider, the white sometimes occupying the
Page 69 - the upper surface brown, faintly mottled paler in parts ; quills and tail-feathers dark brown, the latter with whitish tips; breast and abdomen buffy white, inner portion of each breast-feather dark brown glossed with green ; vent and downy
Page 277 - or the whole of the feathers ; tail ashy brown ; lower plumage white, fore neck and upper breast streaked or spotted with dark brown. In summer the plumage is blackish above, with whitish edges to