A hand-book to the game-birds (1896) (14752237461)

Identifier: handbooktogamebiog02ogil (find matches)

Title: A hand-book to the game-birds

Year: 1896 (1890s)

Authors: Ogilvie-Grant, W. R. (William Robert), 1863-1924

Subjects: Game and game-birds

Publisher: London : E. Lloyd

Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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of the birds own feathers,placed amongst grass among jungle (R. A. Clark). Eggs.—Like those of the Golden Pheasant. Averagemeasurements, 2 by i44 inches (7?. A. Clark). IT. Germains peacock-pheasant, polyplectron GERMAINI, Polyphdroii germaini^ Elliot, Ibis, 1866, p. 56; id. MonogrPhasian. i. pi. 8 (1872); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus.xxii. p. 357 (1893). Adult Male.—Like the male of P. chi?iqins, but the whitish-brown spots on the upper-parts are jjiuch smaller and closertogether ; the ocelli on the tail-feathers dark green with bluish-violet reflections ; no white on the throat. Naked skin roundthe eye crimson. Total length, 20 inches; wing, 7-5; tail,10-5 ; tarsus, 2-5. Adult Female.—Differs chiefly from the female of P. chinquisin having the ocelli on the mantle and upper tail-coverts,though rudimentary, comparatively well-marked and glossedwith dark green, changing to purple ; those on the scapularsand secondary quills bordered above with narrow ^-shaped PLATE XX-VIII.

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c-«s Zt**** NAP OLE 01-;S PEAG 0 G K-PHEASANT. THE PEACOCK-PHEASANTS. 65 black and buff bands. Total length, i86 inches; wiiig, 7;tail, 8-5 ; tarsus, 23.Range.—Cochin China. III. THE MALAYAN PEACOCK-PHEASANT. POLYPLECTRONBICALCARATUM. Pavo bicalcarafus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 268 (1766). Polyplectron bicalcaratiun, Sclater, List of Phas. p. 12, pi. 12(1863); Gould, B. Asia, vii. pi. 51 (1870); Elliot,Monogr. Phasian. i. pi. 7 (1872); Hume and Marshall,Game Birds Ind. i. p. 113, pi. (1878); Ogilvie-Grant,Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 357 (1893). Polypkdron hardwickii^ J. E. Gray, 111. Lid. Zool. i. pi. 37, ii.pi. 42, fig. I, and P. linea/u/n, id. op. cit. i. pi. 38 (1830- 32). Adult Male.—A short crest glossed with purplish-green ; barson neck-feathers glossed with purple ; ground-colour of theupper-parts buff, thickly dotted and mottled with black; theocelli on the wings and tail-feathers entirely rich green inone light, and purplish or blue in another; only the middlepair of tail-feath

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