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Identifier: gameshorewaterbi00leme (find matches)
Title: Game, shore, and water birds of India
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Le Messurier, Augustus, 1837-1916
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Publisher: Calcutta : Thacker, Spink London : W. THacker
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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arvs = broad. Bill like a spatula. Second quill longest. 939. Platalea leucorodia. The Spoonbill Ibis. Leucorodia = the late Latin form of \evK€pa>?>i6s; from XevKos = white, epabtos =a Heron. c? 31 to 36. Legs black. Bill black, tip yellow. Breast-patchbuff-yellow, extending towards back. Crest long.—Female smaller. Subfamily AisrASTOMATiNiE.Bill thick, coarse, and gaping in the middle. Genus ANASTOMUS. Ava = up and down ; o-Top-a = a mouth.Second and third quills subequal. 940. Anastomus oscitans. The Shell Ibis. d1 29 to 32/x. Legs fleshy. Bill green. Plumage ash-grey. Wingand tail black. Some nearly white, supposed to be adults. Subfamily Ibisin^. !/3ts = the Ibis, an Egyptian bird to which divine honours were paid.Bill long, thin, curved, and channelled. Breed on trees. Genus THRESKIORNIS.Head and neck nude and black. 941. Threskiornis melanocephalus. The White Ibis. d 29. Legs black. Bill black. Plumage white, glossed green.Tcrtiarics with open barbs. GEltOJSTJLCUS. 95
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96 T ANT ALICE. Genus GERONTICUS. ytpovTiKos = old age, or belonging to an old man.Top of head nude. Tarsus scaled. 942. Geronticus papillosum. The King Curlew or Black Ibis. cj 25 to 30; 3£ lbs. Legs brick-red. Bill leaden. Plumage black.Bed warts on back of head. Wings and tail steel-blue. Sexes alike. G-eronticus davisoni.c? 32 to 32^; 3^ to 4 lbs. Legs coral-red. Bill plumbeous. Headblack ; anterior portion only covered with small brown warts ; none oncrown and occiput. Broad white necklet. (S. F. iii. 300.) Genus FALCINELLUS. Fair, jaids, f. = a sickle.Face nude. 943. Falcinellus igneus. The Glossy Ibis. S 22. Legs with blue garter. Bill blackish. Head, breast, andbelow chestnut; rest dark green, glossed purple.—Young : Ash-brown,with white markings. NATATORES WATER BIRDS Order. - Sub-order. Tribe. ^ LAMELLIROSTRES. — Broadbill, covered with soft skin .andedged with thin lamellae; thetip alone horny GO •& Pi ^ (U i—I H > += a s CD •^H £ (>j 5> O GO ^ o fc
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