. Birds. Birds. 70 CORTID^. HaMts. Tlie Red-billed Chough is found in summer up to 18,000 feet and over, descending in winter to 5,000 feet or e^en lower. It is a gregarious sociable bird feeding together on the ground much like Eooks. I'hey are noisy birds and haunt human liabitations and camps as well as wilder tracts. -f- (49) Pyrrliocorax graculus. The Yellow-billed Ghougii. Corvus r/raculus Linn., Syst. Nat., ed. xii, p. lo8 (1766) (Swiss Alps). Pi/rrhocorax alinmis. Blanf. & Gates, i, p. Fig. 19.—Head of P. <7r««;^«s. Vernacular names. None recorded. Description. The wliole p
. Birds. Birds. 70 CORTID^. HaMts. Tlie Red-billed Chough is found in summer up to 18,000 feet and over, descending in winter to 5,000 feet or e^en lower. It is a gregarious sociable bird feeding together on the ground much like Eooks. I'hey are noisy birds and haunt human liabitations and camps as well as wilder tracts. -f- (49) Pyrrliocorax graculus. The Yellow-billed Ghougii. Corvus r/raculus Linn., Syst. Nat., ed. xii, p. lo8 (1766) (Swiss Alps). Pi/rrhocorax alinmis. Blanf. & Gates, i, p. Fig. 19.—Head of P. <7r««;^«s. Vernacular names. None recorded. Description. The wliole plumage black with a slight gloss, more developed on wings and tail. Colours of soft parts. Iris brown to red-brown ; bill yellow; feet vermilion, the claws horny brown or black. Measurements. Total length about 420 mm.; wing 202 to 287 mm.; tail about 180 mm. ; ciilmen 25 to 30 mm.; tarsus 45 to 48 mm. Distribution. South Europe and Central Asia. In India throughout the Himalayas from Xohat to Central Tibet and South-East Tibet. Nidification. Eggs have been taken in the Liddar Valley and in Tibet in April and May from nests placed in steep rocky cliffs, either in holes or in crevices in rocks. As a rule the breeding places are almost or quite inaccessible. The eggs difier in no way from tliose of the European bird. The ground-colour is a very pale yellowish grey, rarely with a cream tint, and the spots are of light brown and neutral tint, rather sparse as a rule but more numerous at the larger end. HaMts. In summer it is found between 10,000 and 15,000 feet, coming down to 5,000 feet in Avinter. According to Stoliczka this species is very social and frequently visits the camp of the traveller in 8piti and Ladakh, as it does also in Tibet. It is as familiar and noisy in the neighbourhood of villages and camping- grounds as the common House-Crow is in India. In the breeding season it to some extent deserts human liabitations for the wilder Please note that thes
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