. The edible and game birds of British India, with its dependencies and Ceylon. With woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations . a favourite quarry for the SparrowHawk and the Besra. Its flesh is as much esteemed almost as that of theHoubara, being highly flavoured. Breeds in Sind from February to makes no nest, the eggs being laid in a small depression iii the ground,usually sheltered by a stone. Family, HiEMATOPODID^, Bp.—Szx with three toes, and a very small hind toe; bill long, strong, front halfcompressed, tip blunt; wing long and pointed. Sub-Family, STREPSI
. The edible and game birds of British India, with its dependencies and Ceylon. With woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations . a favourite quarry for the SparrowHawk and the Besra. Its flesh is as much esteemed almost as that of theHoubara, being highly flavoured. Breeds in Sind from February to makes no nest, the eggs being laid in a small depression iii the ground,usually sheltered by a stone. Family, HiEMATOPODID^, Bp.—Szx with three toes, and a very small hind toe; bill long, strong, front halfcompressed, tip blunt; wing long and pointed. Sub-Family, STREPSILIN^.-^/..Characters those of the Family; bill slightly curved upv;ards. 143. Strepsilas interpres {/Jnn.), Jerd., B, ind. ii. p. 656; Salvad.^ Ucc. Born, p. 320; Blylh, B. Burm., p. J 54; Dresser, B. Eur. SSS^ pl« 5 f^ume, Sir. F. iv. p. 464; Murray, Vert. ZooL, Sind, p. 233;Legge, B. Ceylon., p. 987; Oates, Sir. F. x. p. 238; id., B. Br. Burnt, 376; Murray, Avif. Brxl. hid. ii. p. 597, No. 1274. Cinclus interpres,Hume, Sir. F. i. p. 233 ; ii. p. 292. Tringa interpres, Linn., Sysl. p. 248.—The Strepsilas interpres. 116 H^MATOPODID^, In winter the croAvn and hinder part of the head are dusky, edged verynarrowly with greyish brown; the lores pale brown, or in some specimensgreyish brown; the chin and throat are white, also a patch on each side ofthe neck, bordered in front along the sides of the white throat patch withdusky or dark brown; upper back, scapulars, rump, breast and sides of thebreast dusky or dark brown, according to season, edged with rusty or brownishred; some of the scapulars partly edged with white; tertials long, reachingbeyond the fifth quill, edged and tipped with rufous or red brown ; lesserwing coverts, like the upper back, white at the shoulder; the secondaryor greater coverts tipped with white, forming a conspicuous wing bar;primaries and secondaries black, the inner webs of the former and tips ofthe latter white; back
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