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Stray Feathers-A Journal of Ornithology for India and its Dependencies May 1875

1875

A broad stripe of pure white 1+ inches in width occupies the whole throat and front of the neck marked with a black diamond-shaped patch on the chin continued as a line of black spots down the centre of the throat; a very irregularly-shaped snow-white patch in the middle of the breast. [...] Throat chin lores and a broad supercilium extending to behind the eye and down the side of the neck white ; a broad line extending from the nostrils over the eye then bordering the white superciliary band above and running down the side of the neck black ; cheeks and ear-coverts black; across the lower throat a broad ferruginous band or collar separating the white throat from the dingy oli [...] Its nearest ally seems tO be the European species ; but from this it differs in having considerably longer wings in the snow-white hue of the shafts of the primaries and in the larger and well-defined mark of black on the tips of the mandibles ; from S. nereis it is distinguised by having black instead of white lures.—A. [...] The form of the wing is that of Dumeticola; the 1st or small primary is about 70 in length the 2nd is 3 short of tip of wing the 3rd 08 from tip the 4th 05 the 5th is the longest the 6th is intermediate in length between 3rd and 4th and from this they gradually diminish by about twentieths of inches; the 1 ith is equal in length to the 2nd. [...] Colonel Tickell's former connection with Chota Nagpur and the uncertainty which still attaches to some of the species which be recorded from that part of the country make it desirable to note here that At the meeting of the Zoological Society of the 1st December 1874 it was announced by the Secretary that Colonel R. S. Tickell late of H. M.'s Indian Army had presented to the Society's library
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Macheiramphus Alcinus Westerman
269-271 Allan Hume view
On Curruca Affinis and Curruca Garrula
272-273 W. Brooks view
On the Occnrrence of Querquedula Angustirostris in the Donb and Oudh
273-273 A. Anderson view
Podiceps Cristatus Breeding in the Plains
274-274 A. Anderson view
Additional Notes on Birds Collected Between Mnssoori and Gangaotri in Man 1874
275-278 W. Brooks view
Recently-Described Species
279-284 Allan Hume view
Notes on a New Dumeticola and on Tribura Lutfoventris Hodgson and Dumeticola Affinis Hodgson
284-287 W. Brooks view
Avifauna of Chota Nagpur
288-294 V. Ball view
On Drymoipus Inornatus Sykes and Drymoipus Hngicanatus Tickell
295-296 W. Brooks view
Novelties
296-303 Allan Hume view
Notes on Cerchneis Vespertina and C. Amurensis
303-313 R. Sharpe view
Baza Sumatrensis Lafr?
313-316 Allan Hume view
A Second List of the Birds of Tenasserim
317-326 A.O.H. view
Notes
326-329 Allan Hume view
Letters to the Editor
329-333 Allan Hume view

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