. The edible and game birds of British India, with its dependencies and Ceylon. With woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations . er websof primaries pale greenish blue, the inner webs of primaries, secondaries andtertials dark brown or black; tail black, the feathers on the outer web edgedwilh bluish. Length.—18 inches ; wing lO to I02 ; tail 4-5 ; bill at gape i62 ; tarsi 3*62 ;mid-toe 3*62 ; casque and spot at base of bill cherry red; bill red; irides red ;legs crimson. Hah.—Throughout India, Ceylon and British Burmah; also in Persia, Beloo-chistan and Afghanistan. Common in Sind in
. The edible and game birds of British India, with its dependencies and Ceylon. With woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations . er websof primaries pale greenish blue, the inner webs of primaries, secondaries andtertials dark brown or black; tail black, the feathers on the outer web edgedwilh bluish. Length.—18 inches ; wing lO to I02 ; tail 4-5 ; bill at gape i62 ; tarsi 3*62 ;mid-toe 3*62 ; casque and spot at base of bill cherry red; bill red; irides red ;legs crimson. Hah.—Throughout India, Ceylon and British Burmah; also in Persia, Beloo-chistan and Afghanistan. Common in Sind in suitable localities, but I do FULICA. 155 not believe they are anywhere as numerous as on the Munchur Lake, whereamong the rushes, they are with the Bald Coot simply innumerable. Breeds in the Province from May to September, making a nest of rushes,etc., in the reedy grass. Eggs prettily marked on a greenish ground withspots, blotches and streaks of a reddish colour, lake red or rich red» Gen. Pulica- Bill moderate ; nostrils lateral; casque small; wing with a tubercle at theshoulder ;; tail short; toes, with lobate Fulica atra» 190. Fulica atra, Lmn., Sysf. Nat. r, p. 257; Jerd., B. Lid. 715 ; Eume, Sir. F. i. p. 249; Nestsa?id Eggs p. S9S; BlytJi, B. 162 ; Wardlazv-Ravisay, Ibis, 1887, p. 472; Dresser, B. Eur. 327 ;Murray, Vert. Sind, p. 261 ; Oates, B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 352; Murray,Avif. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 636, No. 1321.—The Bald Coot. Upper plumage black; hoary, dark ash,lead colour or dusky brown below;a spot below the eye, and the outer edge of the wings white; frontal disc orcasque white r also the bill, which in the breeding season is tinged pale red;irides blood red ; legs dull green, with a yellow, green, and red garter in thebreeding season. Length.—\l to i& inches; wing 7-5 to 775 ; tail 2 ; bill at gape 1-41. i7a^—Throughout India, Ceyton and British Burmah; also Europe (centraland south), Egypt, Assam, Nepaul
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