A hand-book to the game-birds (1895) (14755548735)

Identifier: handbooktogamebi02ogil (find matches)
Title: A hand-book to the game-birds
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Ogilvie-Grant, W. R. (William Robert), 1863-1924
Subjects: Game and game-birds Upland game birds
Publisher: London : W.H. Allen & Co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library



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of the birds own feathers,placed amongst grass among jungle (R. A. Clark). Eggs.—Like those of the Golden Pheasant. Averagemeasurements, 2 by 1*44 inches (R. A. Clark). II. GERMAIN S PEACOCK-PHEASANT. POLYPLECTRONGERMAINI. Polypledro7i germaini^ Elliot, Ibis, 1866, p. 56; id. MonogrPhasian. i. pi. 8 (1872); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus.xxii. p. 357 (1893). Adult Male.—Like the male of F. chinquis, but the whitish-brown spots on the upper-parts are i?iuch smaller a7id closertogether ; the ocelli on the tail-feathers dark green with bluish-violet reflections ; no white on the throat. Naked skin roundthe eye crimson. Total length, 20 inches; wing, 7*5; tail,10-5 ; tarsus, 2*5. Adult Female.—Differs chiefly from the female of P. chinquisin having the ocelli on the mantle and upper tail-coverts,though rudimentary, comparatively well-marked and glossedwith dark green, changing to purple ; those on the scapularsand secondary quills bordered above with narrow ^-shaped PLATE yjLxnii
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napoleons peacock-pheasant. THE PEACOCK-PHEASANTS. 65 black and buff bands. Total length, i8-6 inches; wing, 7;tail, 8-5; tarsus, 2-3.Range. —Cochin China. III. THE MALAYAN PEACOCK-PHEASANT. POLYPLECTRONPICAI.CARATUM. Favo bicalcaraius^ Linn. S. N. i. p. 268 (1766). Polyplectron bicalcarattn/i, Sclater, List of Phas. p. 12, pi. 12(1863); Gould, B. x\sia, vii. pi. 51 (1870); Elliot,Monogr. Phasian. i. pi. 7 (1872); Hume and Marshall,Game Birds Ind. i. p. 113, pi. (1878); Ogilvie-Grant,Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 357 (1893). Polyplectron hardivickii^ J. E. Gray, III. Lid. Zool. i. pi. 37, ii.pi. 42, fig. I, and P. li/icafinn, id. op. cit, i. pi. 38 (1830- 32). Adult Male.—A short crest glossed with purplish-green ; barson neck-feathers glossed with purple ; ground-colour of theupper-parts buff, thickly dotted and mottled with black ; theocelli on the wings and tail-feathers entirely rich green inone light, and purplish or blue in another; only the middlepair of tail-feathers, and lo