Birds, 3. köideTaylor & Francis, 1895 |
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abdomen apud Assam B. M. xviii band bars Bill black bill from gape Bingham Birds Burm Birds Ceyl blue bluish Blyth & Wald breast brownish buff Burma C. H. T. Marshall Ceylon claws Coloration coverts crimson crown culmen Cypselus dark brown Davison Distribution ear-coverts edges eggs feathers female forehead genus gloss Godw.-Aust green greenish grey Habits Hargitt Himalayas Horsf Hume & Dav ibid Ibis India inner webs irides J. A. S. B. xiv J. A. S. B. xxxix Jerdon Legge legs and feet Length Lepcha lower mandible lower tail-coverts malar Malay Peninsula male mandible Manipur nape nest Oates in Hume's occiput outer webs pale paler Picus plumbeous primaries quills rufous rump S. F. ix S. F. vi S. F. vii scapulars shaft-stripes species Sumatra tail tail-feathers tarsus Tenasserim throughout tips upper mandible upper tail-coverts white spots whitish wing wing-coverts Woodpecker yellow
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Page vii - Passeres, relates to the palatal structure exhibited by a raven (fig. 79), as typical of that of Passeres at large. The vomer is a broad bone, truncate in front and deeply cleft behind, embracing the sphenoidal rostrum in its forks. The palatines have produced postero-external angles. The maxillo-palatines are slender at their origin, extending inwards and backwards over the palatines and under the vomer, where they end free, being united neither with each other nor with the vomer. This disconnection...
Page 376 - ... crows and dogs, and selecting their scraps. On such an occasion, too, there is many a struggle to retain a larger fragment than usual, for the possessor no sooner emerges from its /» swoop, than several empty-clawed spectators instantly pursue it eagerly, till the owner finds the chase too hot, and drops the bone of contention, which is generally picked up long before it reaches the ground, again and again to change owners, and perhaps finally revert to its original proprietor. On such occasions...
Page vii - Desmognathous birds the vomer is often either abortive, or so small that it disappears from the skeleton. When it exists it is always slender and tapers to a point anteriorly. " The maxillo-palatines are united across the middle line, either directly or by the intermediation of ossifications in the nasal septum. " The posterior ends of the palatines and the anterior ends of the pterygoids articulate directly with the rostrum...
Page vii - ... always tapers to a point anteriorly ; while posteriorly it embraces the basisphenoidal rostrum, between the palatines. But the latter bones and the pterygoids are directly articulated with one another and with the basisphenoidal rostrum, and are not borne by the divergent posterior ends of the vomer. The maxillo-palatines are usually elongated and lamellar; they pass inwards over the anterior processes of the palatine bones, with which they become united, and then bending backwards, along the...
Page 73 - The whole upper part, except the crest, is deep dark brown, sprinkled with grey on the sides of the neck ; across the breast is a large lunuled patch of slate color with small dark waves ; the belly is yellow with the like crescent-shaped spots, and the crest is deep red.
Page vii - The posterior ends of the palatines and the anterior ends of the pterygoids are very imperfectly, or not at all, articulated with the basisphenoidal rostrum, being usually separated from it and supported by the broad, cleft, hinder end of the vomer.
Page 104 - It generally takes its perch on the top, or outermost branch, of some high tree, and, on spying an insect on the ground, which it can do at a very great distance, it flies direct to the spot, seizes it, and returns to its perch to swallow it.
Page vii - Schizognathous, the vomer, sometimes large and sometimes very small, always tapers to a point anteriorly ; while posteriorly it embraces the basisphenoidal rostrum, between the palatines. But the latter bones and the pterygoids are directly articulated with one another and with the basisphenoidal rostrum, and are not borne by the divergent posterior ends of the vomer. The maxillo-palatines are usually elongated and lamellar ; they pass inwards over the anterior processes of the palatine...
Page 376 - ... the stranger from England, where birds of prey are so rare. " Every large town, cantonment, and even village, has its colony of kites, which ply their busy vocation from before sunrise to some time after sunset. Every large camp, too, is followed by these useful scavengers, and the tent even of a single traveller is daily visited by one or more, according to the numbers in the neighbourhood. As is well known, kites pick up garbage of all kinds, fragments of meat and fish, and generally the refuse...
Page 104 - ... haystack, or other elevated spot; sometimes a low bush, or a heap of earth, or of stones. When seated it puffs out the feathers of its head and neck. I have, on several occasions, seen one pursue an insect in the air for some distance, and when the winged termites issue from their nest after rain, the Roller, like almost every other bird, catches them on the wing.