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Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society October 1924

1924

It is essentially a bird of the open country and it seems to prefer ground on which even the grass and plants the seeds of which it eats are but scanty. [...] Female.—Similar to the male but with the grey pectoral band much vermiculated with pale fulvous and generally with the breast and foreneck mere or less mottled with the brown fulvous barred feathers A the young bird. [...] The white supercilium entirely concealed in the old bird is conspicuous ; the sides of the head and neck are boldly barred with buff ; the feathers of the tack have pale mesial streaks and the dorsal band is wanting ; the feathers of the wing are mottled black and buff with white drops at the tips ; below the chin and throat are white ; the breast is grey vermiculated with whitish and mottled w [...] Like other birds of the genus it makes no nest merely scratching a small hole in the shelter of a rock cr boulder near the summit on the leeward side of the crest of a hill or ridge. [...] When feeding and moving about this Snow-Cock does not seem in the habit of posting sentries but during the heat of the day when the birds are enjoying a siesta in the sun ore or more of their number are always to be found perched on some post commanding a good view of the surrounding country for some distance.
agriculture environment
Pages
254
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120062
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
1-2 unknown view
The Game Birds of India Burma and Ceylon
3-11 E.C. Baker view
A Hand-List of the Snakes of the Indian Empire
12-24 F. Wall view
Termite Mounds
25-35 N. Annandale view
Notes and Descriptions of Indian Fishes
36-41 Henry Fowler view
A Sporting Trip to the Pindari Geacier
42-47 W.H.O. Shortt view
New Additions to the Odonate (Dragonfly) Fauna of India
48-53 F.C. Fraser view
Notes on the Birds of the Sikkim Himalayas
54-71 Herbert Stevens view
The Identification of Indian Butterflies
72-96 W.H evans view
Birds’ Nesting with a Camera in India
97-105 R.S.P. Bates view
Indian Dagonflies
106-117 F.C. Fraser view
The Mammals and Birds of Kashmir and the Adjacent Hill Provinces
118-131 A.E. Ward view
The Common Butterflies of the Plains of India Including Those Met with in the Hill Stations of the Bombay Presidency
132-150 T.R. Bell view
The Snakes of Bombay Island and Salsette
151-176 S.H. Prater view
A Note on the Weavers and Finches of the Punjab
177-i Hugh Whistler view
The Hamadryad or King Cobra Naia Hannah. (Cantor)
189-195 F. Wall view
A Rough and Tumble with an African Buffalo
196-200 C.R.S.P. view
Reviews
201-206 unknown view
A Brief Reply to Some Criticisms on the Second Edition of the Avifauna of British India
207-209 unknown view
Editorial
210-212 unknown view
Obituary
213-214 Nelson Annandale view
Miscellaneous Notes
215-231 unknown view
Proceedings
232-233 unknown view
Backmatter
i-i unknown view

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