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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part II Physical Science 1872

1872

Excepting the migratory birds particularly the Grallcc from our cosideration the bulk of the non-local species in the Andamans are Ibdian wand ip the Nicobars Malayan. [...] Our present specimen closely resembles some of the duller plumaged idividuals of H. aurial from Bengal and also agrees to a certain extent with Sharpe's description of Burmanica but differs from the figure given of that race in the following particulars : the feathers of the head and nape are much more albescent the ochreous collar is broader and-the blue of the wings and tail has no tinge o [...] The black stripe from the lower mandible to the demicollar of peacrose so marked in ordinary specimens is in this reduced to a narrow line which commences half an inch from the mandible and terminates at the first point of contact with the peach-rose not being continued as a border to it as it commonly is for three-fourths of an inch or so in Indian specimens. [...] 281 specimens of eristatus in the silvery white of the forehead chin and throat and in the almost entire absence above of any tinge of rufous except on the upper tail coverts. [...] In the two males before me the gorgets are distinctly marked ; but the other specific characters the brighter coloration of the upper parts and the continuation of the blue of the breast to the abdomen which becomes slightly paler towards the vent serve to distinguish this bird if not as a species at least as a well marked variety of M. azurea.

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Pages
85
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
Segment Pages Author Actions
Notes on a Collection of Birds Made in the Andaman Islands by Assistant Surgeon G. E. Donson M. B. During the Mounth of April and May —by V. ball Esq. B. A.
273-290 unknown view
New Barmese Plants (Part First) —by S. Kurz Esq
291-318 unknown view
Monograph of Indian Cyprinidæ (Part VI) —by Surgeon Major Francis Day
318-327 unknown view
On two Undescribed Cashmir Birds —by W. E. I;Hoots C. E.
327-329 unknown view
Notes on Barmese and Arakanese Land Shells With Descriptions of a Few Species —by W. Theobald Esq. and Dr. F. Stoliczka
329-334 unknown view
On the Osteology of Some Species of Bats —by G. E. Dobson B. A. M. B. Assistant Surgeon H. M.’s British Forces
334-336 unknown view
Brief Descreptions of Five New Species of Bhinolophine Bats — by G. E. Dobson B. A. M. B.
336-338 unknown view
Index
339-i unknown view

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