. The edible and game birds of British India, with its dependencies and Ceylon. With woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations . s from the eyes to the breast;chin and throat white ; neck in front variegated with rufous black and purple,the feathers on the top of the breast long and acuminated, purplish white ;back, wings, and tail reddish ash ; scapulars purple, Icng, forming a brilliantplume on each side; breast and flanks deep brownish red, rest of under partsa little paler. Bill deep yellow ; orbitar skin greenish yellow ; tarsus reddishbrown. Length.—-i/o to 42 inches; wing I55 ;
. The edible and game birds of British India, with its dependencies and Ceylon. With woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations . s from the eyes to the breast;chin and throat white ; neck in front variegated with rufous black and purple,the feathers on the top of the breast long and acuminated, purplish white ;back, wings, and tail reddish ash ; scapulars purple, Icng, forming a brilliantplume on each side; breast and flanks deep brownish red, rest of under partsa little paler. Bill deep yellow ; orbitar skin greenish yellow ; tarsus reddishbrown. Length.—-i/o to 42 inches; wing I55 ; tail 575 ; bill at front 5-37 ; tarsus 5-25. //(/(5.—Throughout India and Ceylon, extending into Burmah. Habitsand nidification the same as those of the Common Heron. Natives arevery partial to the flash of this as well as of all the smaller Herons andEgrets. 22 B J70 CYGNID.^. Family, CYGNID.^.-^/. Neck very long; legs moderate; front toes broadly webbed; hind toe notlobed ; keel long ; bill high at the base, with a fleshy or callous tubercle; cereextending to the eye ; 2nd and 3rd quills of wing longest; tail short, Cygnus olor. The Mute Swan. 210. Cygnus olor {Gm.), Bodd., Tab. p. E. 913; Naiim. 29 ; Gould, B. Eur. pi. 354; Str. F. vii. pp. 99, 101, 106 ; Murray, Hdbk.,Zool., t^C, Sitid, p. 231 ; id., Verf., Zool. Sindy p. 282 ; , Avif. Brit. p. 671, No 1373.—The Mute Swan. Entire plumage white; callous tubercle at base of upper mandible; legs,feet and cere black ; bill reddish orange, the edges and tip black ; irides darkbrown. Length.—48 to 52 inches. The following are the measurements of thethree specimens obtained by Mr. H. E, Watson given in Mr. Blanfords paperon Wild Swans in Sind {Sir. F. vii lOi):— No. I. No. 2. No. from tip of bill to end of 58-5^ 62- 6o Expanse 78* 84- 82- Closed wing 22* 23- Tail from vent 975 lO 25 9*75 Bill from gape 375 3- 8 Tarsus measured on inner side 3 S 4* 2 The female resembles the
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