Identifier: handbooktogamebia01ogil (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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y, mixedwith buff on the lower back and upper tail-coverts; sides ofhead and throat reddish-chestnut; neck, chest, and uppermantle grey-, rest of under-parts rufous-buff. Total length,14-6 inches; wing, 77 ; tail, 3-5 ; tarsus, 2*2. Adult Pemale.—Differs from the male in having the neck andchest rufous-chestniit^ and the lower back and upper tail-covertsffiostly buff. Slightly smaller than the male. liange.—Southern part of the Malay Peninsula, and extend-ing to Sumatra and Borneo. II. hoses long-billed FRANCOLIN RHIZOTHERADULITENSIS. Rhizothera dulitensis, Ogilvie-Grant, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, iv.p. xxvii. (1895). (Plate XIc.) Adult Male.—Easily distinguished from the male of R. longi-rostris by having the whole chest and breast grey, and the restof the under-parts white. Adult Female.—Differs from the female of R. longirostris inits generally richer colouring and in having the general colourof the outer wing-coverts dark brown, with comparatively fewbuff markings. PLATE XI c
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HOSES LONG-BILLED FRANCOLIN. THE TRUE PARTRIDGES. I43 Range.—Mount Dulit, Sarawak, Borneo, at an elevation of4,000 feet. A pair of this fine Francolin were obtained by Mr. C. Hose. THE TRUE PARTRIDGES. GENUS PERDIX.Peidix^ Briss. Orn. i. p. 219 (1760).Type, P. perdix (L.).Differs from the preceding genera in having the tail com-posed of either sixteen or eighteen feathers, nearly equal inlength, the outer pair being only slightly shorter than themiddle pair, which are more than half the length of the wing.The first primary flight-feather is intermediate in length betweenthe seventh and eighth, and the fourth is slightly the longest.The feet are without spurs in either sex, and the plumage ofboth is alike or slightly different. The four species may conveniently be divided into twogroups, each containing two species. A. Tail with eighteen feathers; chest and breast not barredwith black (species i and 2, pp. 143-149). B. Tail with sixteen feathers; chest and breast barredwith black (sp

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