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The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society December 1918

1918

Primaries brown the outermost edged and barred with pale buff on the outer webs and both mottled and barred with the same colour on the inner webs; secondaries the same becoming more and more mottled in characters towards the innermost which have one broad subterminal bar of black a second bar less definite in shape and the rest of the feather irregularly mottled with black and buff; greater a [...] The Genus Lophura contains three species of Pheasants which are rather closely allied to those of the genus Gennceus but the tail is differently shaped though compressed as in that group and the naked portion of the face is produced above the forehead and again below the cheeks into the fleshy pendant wattles. [...] The Fire-Back did not " attempt to follow but took up a position in the middle of " the clearing and recommenced the whirring noise with his " wings evidently as a challenge whereupon the Argus slowly " returned but the moment it got within the cleared space " the Fire-Back charged it and drove it back into the jungle " and then as before took up his position in the middle of the space an [...] Description.--Adult Male.—Crown from forehead to nape sides of the head behind and over the ears chin throat and crest black ; the crest glossed with purple-blue ; the feathers of the chin throat and foreneck especially the latter are very scanty the fleshy red skin showing through ; back and upper breast very finely vermiculated grey and black the general effect being a rather dark grey ; [...] In the Autumn in the first moult the young male appears to put on the complete plumage of the male retaining a few feathers here and there of the female which are presumably dropped dining the ensuing winter and replaced with adult feathers.
agriculture environment
Pages
340
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120062
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iii W.S. Millard, R.A. Spence, N.B. Kinnear view
The Game Birds of India Burma and Ceylon
1-18 E.C. Bakes view
Summary of the Results from the Indian Mammal Survey of the Bombay Natural History Society
19-58 R.C. Wroughton view
Scientific Results From The Mammal Survey
59-88 A.C. Hinton view
A Popular Treatise on the Common Indian Snakes
89-97 F. Wall view
The Common Butterflies of the Plains of India
98-140 T.R. Bell view
Indian Dragonflies
141-171 F.C. Fraser view
Notes on the Birds of Ambala Distt Punjab
172-191 H. Whistler view
The Cyperaceæ of the Bombay Presidency
192-209 L. J. Sedgwick view
A Revision of the Indian Species of Rotala and Ammannia
210-217 E. Blatter, F. Hallberg view
The Flora of the Indian Desert (Jodhpur and Jaisalmer)
218-246 E. Blatter, F. Hallberg view
The Birds of Prey of the Punjab
247-265 C.H. Donald view
Panthers
266-278 R.G. Burton view
The Mesopotamian Bulbul
279-280 Claud B. Ticehurst view
Miscellaneous Notes
281-312 W.S. Millard, R.A. Spence, N.B. Kinnear view
Proceedings of the Meeting Held on 16th April 1918
313-318 W.S. Millard, R.A. Spence, N.B. Kinnear view
Backmatter
i-ii W.S. Millard, R.A. Spence, N.B. Kinnear view

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