. The game-birds of India, Burma and Ceylon . blackblotches in the centre of the feathers; rump a little greyer than theback, the feathers being freckled with whitish instead of sandy-buff;upper tail-coverts white or white mottled with a few blackishmarkings; wing-coverts like the back, but somewhat more sparselyvermiculated with black ; lesser and median coverts white at thetips, and more or less freckled with black; the external coverts,bastard-wing and greater coverts pure white, the inner ones slightlyfreckled or spotted with blackish; primary-coverts blackish, narrowlytipped with white; q
. The game-birds of India, Burma and Ceylon . blackblotches in the centre of the feathers; rump a little greyer than theback, the feathers being freckled with whitish instead of sandy-buff;upper tail-coverts white or white mottled with a few blackishmarkings; wing-coverts like the back, but somewhat more sparselyvermiculated with black ; lesser and median coverts white at thetips, and more or less freckled with black; the external coverts,bastard-wing and greater coverts pure white, the inner ones slightlyfreckled or spotted with blackish; primary-coverts blackish, narrowlytipped with white; quills white, mostly blackish towards the ends,the tips of these feathers being again white, so that the black markbecomes subterminal; the outer primaries blackish with white bases,the white gradually increasing towards the secondaries, which arealmost entirely white with an occasional spot of black. Innermostsecondaries like the back; tail-feathers coarsely freckled with blackon a white ground and crossed by four distinct bars of blackish,. Q< CO Z < O 4
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