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The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society January 1920

1920

The Argus in parts very plentiful the hills covered with pine-forests and the Argus I used to find about onfourth of the height of the hills from the top and they appeaed to affect the vicinity and edges of snow nullahs and lanslips where there was a fair quantity of undergrowth and where there were plenty of rocks. [...] The tail is lighter in general effect and has the black replaced to a great extent by rich rufous ; chin and throat white with brown spots the former almost immaculate ; whole lower surface and flanks mottled and stippled with very dark brown dull rufous and greyish white the latter colour forming distinct spots on many of the feathers ; the centre of the abdomen and vent are more greyish and [...] The most noticeable thing was the curious way these Tragopans had—like all the rest of the genus— of suddenly shaking their heads violently and at the same time iflating horns and wattle giving the on-looker the impression that the shake released some automatic spring which released the horns &c. [...] " The country surrounding my camp was of a very broken and rugged character ; the main range of hills known as the Barail Range running almost due North-East and South-West and having on either side two rapidly flowing hill streams to the West the Jennam and to the East the Jiri. [...] Below the red of the breast is confined to a compartively narrow gorget descending only a short way below the neck on to the breast and the whole of the rest of the lower parts are much paler than in Tragopan blythi blythi the pale centres of the feathers hardly showing at all in contrast with the surrounding parts.
agriculture environment
Pages
179
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120062
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i W. S. Millard, R. A. Spence, N. B. Kinnear view
Frontmatter
i-iii W. S. Millard, R. A. Spence, N. B. Kinnear view
The Game Birds of India Burma and Ceylon
885-906 E. C. Baker view
Scientific Results from the Mammal Survey No. XVIII Reports on the House Rats of India Burma and Ceylon
906-918 Martin Hinton view
Indian Dragonflies
919-932 F. C. Fraser view
Scientific Results from the Mammal Survey No. XXI
933-940 Oldfield Thomas view
The Common Butterflies of the Plains of India
941-954 T. R. Bell view
Summary of the Results from the Indian Mammal Survey of the Bombay Natural History Society
955-967 R. C. Wroughton view
The Flora of the Indian Desert. (Jodhpur and Jaisalmer)
968-987 E. Blatter, F. Hallberg view
A Tentative List of the Vertebrates of the Jalpaiguri District Bengal
988-999 Chas Inglis, W. L. Travers, H. V. O’Donel, E. O. Shebbeare view
The Birds of Prey of the Punjab
1000-1020 C. H. Donald view
Notes on Indian Butterflies
1021-1023 W. H. Evans view
Description of a New Snake of the Genus Contia B. & G. from Persia
1024-1024 G. A. Boulenger view
Bombay Natural History Society’s Mammal Survey of India Burma and Ceylon
1025-1035 R. C. Wroughton, Winifred Davidson view
Progress of the Mammal Survey
1036-1036 W. S. Millard, R. A. Spence, N. B. Kinnear view
Obituary Notices
1037-1055 F. Hannyngton view
Backmatter
i-i W. S. Millard, R. A. Spence, N. B. Kinnear view

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