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Title: Illustrations of Indian ornithology : containing fifty figures of new, unfigured and interesting species of birds, chiefly from the south of India
Year: 1847 (1840s)
Authors: Jerdon, T. C. (Thomas Claverhill), 1811-1872 Kistnarajoo, C. V., lithographer R. E. B., lithographer Leonard, lithographer Miller, lithographer Linn, lithographer Hunt, Phineas R., 1816-1878, printer American Mission Press (Madras, India), printer Reeve Brothers, printer of plates
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: Madras : Printed by P.R. Hunt, American Mission Press
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overts grey ; quills dusky black ; abdomen, sides, and under tail coverts, rufous ;centre tail feathers grey, tipped with rufous and dark shafted, the intermediate ones grey onthe outer web, rufous at the tip, and black internally, tlie rufous increasing as far as theouter tail feathers, which are entirely rufous, except at the base. Bill blue at the base,greenish in the centre, and yellow at the tip. Irides blueish white—legs and feet reddishyellow, claws pale yellow—Length 8 to 8; inches—Wing 4i;—Tail 2,^ to o inches—Bill(at front) nearly ~ ths.—Tarsus 1 inch. It differs from the common grey-headed Myna in being larger in all its dimen-sions, in the colour of the head and neck, in the primaries not being tipped with grey, andin some other slight points. This last species, Jl/a/aianci/j verus, occurs here only in thecold weather I find, and is generally dispersed through the Southern part of the Peninsula,preferring of course the more wooded portions of the country. XXffl
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^ryr/.^lu>t-/y^^tic- /r/^-rr Pri^/Mi /■„ /.^^.(i.A^ly^f ORD. .r^lT.lTORES, FAM. ANATIDyE.GEN. DENDROCYGNA. PLATE XXIII. DENDROCYGNA MAJOR. LARGE WHISTLING TEAL. Among the many species of Duck found in this country during the cold -weatlierthere are but few peculiar to it, the great majority being birds of extended geographicaldistribution, and ranging from the torrid regions to the limits of the Arctic circle. Thegenus Dendrocygna however appears to be peculiar to India and its isles, and contamsseveral species, very closely allied indeed, but yet sufficiently characterized as distinct forms.Horsfield indicates other species besides his Javanica, but merely calls them varieties,although the natives, he tells us, distinguish them by separate names. Colonel Sykes hascharacterized the common species of this country apart from Horsfields under the name of awsm-ee, and in my Catalogue of Indian birds I described the present species under thename of D. major. It appears contrary to m

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