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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part II Physical Science 1876

1876

The description of the bird now recorded will run as follows: On back and shoulder of wing pale umber-►rown with ash-coloured feathers coming in on the centre of back ; the tail is of the same colour but darker increasing in intensity to the end with no white save at the very roots of the rectrices. [...] Above it is the counterpart of P. 2najoroides : the back wing and tail rich velvety black ; spots on the wing-feathers moderate ; a very large and conspicuous white wing-patch formed by the secondary coverts ; a scarlet band on the nape ; a white frontal band extends through the eye to the ear-coverts and side of the neck the portion near base of bill and the eacoverts being pale flaxen. [...] In the adult the lores are pale over the eye also the border of lower mandible is white the under surface is more rufous there is no sign of whit© tippings to the breast or abdominal feathers the irides are red-brown and the legs pale horny. [...] instead of 13 taking the measurement along the oilmen and 14 instead of 18 from the gape; the tarsus having the same dimensions in the two birds. [...] It is white throtighout the black of the nuehal patch with the white spots being replaced by pale ash-grey as well as the darker portions of the vrifig and base of the tail-feathers.
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Pages
206
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
Segment Pages Author Actions
XV.—Fifth List of Birds from the Hill Ranges of the North-East Frontire of India.—by Major H. H. Godwin-Austen F. B. G. S. F. Z. S. Deputy Superintendent Tapographical Survey of India
191-204 The Natural History Secretary view
XVI.—Contrilnttions towards a Knowledge of the Burmese Flora. by S. Kurz
204-310 The Natural History Secretary view
XVII.—On the Helicide Collected during the Expedition into the Dufla Hills Assam.—by Major H. H. Godwin-Austen F.R.G.S. F.Z.S. &c. Deputy Superintendent Topographical Survey of India
311-318 The Natural History Secretary view
XVIII.—On the Physical Eaplation of the Inequality of the two Semidiurnal Oscillations of Barometric Pressure.—by Henry F. Blanford Meteorologist of the Government of India
319-328 The Natural History Secretary view
XIX.—Contributions towards the Knowledge of the Fossil Flora in India
329-382 The Natural History Secretary view
Backmatter
i-xiii The Natural History Secretary view

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