A hand-book to the game-birds (1896) (14755088762)

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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. 11 (1872); Humeand Marshall, Game Birds Ind. i. p. 99, pi. (1878); Sclater,P. Z. S. 1879, p. 115, pis. vii. and viii. fig. i. Argus favoninus, J. E. Gray, 111. Ind. Zool. i. pi. 36 (1C30-32). Argusiajius argus, Gould, B. Asia, vii. pi. 52 (1883); Oguvic-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 363 (1893).ypicie XXIX.) Adult Eale.—A short black crest; general colour above black,chequered and mottled with buff a?id rufous ; lower back andrump buff, with rounded black spots; long middle tail-featherswhitish-buff with kidney-shaped black spots and blotches;primary quills beautifully patterned, and ornamented withclose-set rows of black and rufous spots; a rufous-brown band,finely dotted with white, on the basal part of the inner webonly, divided from the dull-blue shaft by a yellow line regu-larly barred with black ; secondary quills equally wonderful intheir markings, and having the outer webs decorated with a rowof large oceUi, gradually increasing in size towards the extremity PLATE XXIX

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ARG-US PHEASANT WYmajt,kScms. Umtt^cL THE ARGUS PHEASANTS. 7 I of the feathers; each of these eyes yellowish in the centre,shading into white on the one side and reddish-brown on theother, and bounded by a black band; under-parts black withwavy bars and markings of chestnut and buff. Naked skin onsides of head and throat dark blue. Total length, 72 inches;wing to the end of the primary quills, 19; to the end of thesecondaries, 34; tail, 50 ; tarsus, 4*4. Adult Female.—Neck chest7iiit^ slightly mottled with black,shading into reddish-buff on the mantle, which is thicklymottled with black; lower back bright buff, barred andmottled with black; wing-coverts and secondary quills black,thickly covered with buff hieroglyphics; primary quills chest-nut, irregularly marked with black; under-parts rufous^ finelymottled with black. Total length, 30 inches; wing to the endof the primary quills, 13 ; to the end of the secondaries, 15 ;tail, i25 ; tarsus, 4. Range.—Laos Mountains, Siam, South T

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