. The edible and game birds of British India, with its dependencies and Ceylon. With woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations . ies as in the winter plumage. Length. —X^ to 20 inches ; irides darkbroWn; bill plumbeous at the base andtippedV^enish, 1-25 in length ; tail 10 to 11 inches ; wing 8 to 8-5; tarsus 2-12;middle toe and claw 3 inches ; hind toe and claw 2 inches. _gr^^._Throughout India, Ceylon and British Burmah. Common in 3indon the Munchur and other Lakes, also in the Punjab and in the Province from May to September, making a large floating ,
. The edible and game birds of British India, with its dependencies and Ceylon. With woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations . ies as in the winter plumage. Length. —X^ to 20 inches ; irides darkbroWn; bill plumbeous at the base andtippedV^enish, 1-25 in length ; tail 10 to 11 inches ; wing 8 to 8-5; tarsus 2-12;middle toe and claw 3 inches ; hind toe and claw 2 inches. _gr^^._Throughout India, Ceylon and British Burmah. Common in 3indon the Munchur and other Lakes, also in the Punjab and in the Province from May to September, making a large floating , pear-shaped, of a beautiful bronze colour. Family, RALLID.^. Bill compressed, short, pointed, thick, wedge-shaped; nostrils in a shortgroove; legs stout; toes long; tarsi moderate; tail short. Sub-Family, GALLINULIN^.—Water-Hens. Bill with the keel advancing on the forehead, where there is usually acasque ; toes long and slender or bordered by a scolloped web; wings shortand rounded; hind toe 15 154 RALLID.^. Gen. Porphyrio—^//j^. Bill very thick; casque large; mid-toe as long as tarsi, slender, not fringedwith Porphyrio poliocephalus, The Purple Coot. 189. Porphyrio poliocephalus {Lath.), Jerd., B. Tnd. 713 ; Ely til, B. Burm. p. 161 ; Butler, Str. F. iv. p. 20 ; Oa/es, Str. F. 165 ; Elliot, Str. F. vii. p. 22 ; Legge, B. Ceylon p. 795 ; Murray, , Sind, p. 260; Oates, B. Br. Burnt, ii. p. 35 I ; Murray, Avif. ii. p. 635, No. 1320. Gallinula , hath., hid. Orn. Ixviii. Porphyrio neglectus, Scheg. Mus. P. B., Rail/, p. 53; Hujue,Str. F. i. p. 249 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs p. 594 5 ^d., Str. F. iii. p. 185.—The Purple Coot. Occiput and nape, lores, and round the eyes greyish, clouded with purple;cheeks, chin and throat the same, but with more of a purple tinge; neck infront and breast pale bluish ; lower breast, abdomen, flanks, vent and thighcoverts dark purplish blue ; under tail coverts white ; back of ne
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