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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
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ed and Javan Jungle-Fowls, and clearly exhibitsthe characters of both parents. The comb is toothed, and inaddition to the large median throat wattle, there is a smalllateral pair. Gallus violaceus^ Kelsall (J. As. Soc. Str. Br. No.xxiv. p. 167 (1891) and No. xxv. p. 173) is also in all proba-bility a hybrid between the above species. The type, supposedto have come from Borneo, was living in the Botanic Gardensat Singapore. The bird from the Sulu Islands has been namedGallus stramijieicollis by Dr. Sharpe (P. Z. S. 1879, p. 317), butit is probably only the offspring of a domestic variety runwild. THE PEACOCK-PHEASANTS. GENUS POLYPLECTRON. Polyplectron^ Temm. Pig. et Gall. ii. p. 363 (1813). Type, P. chinquis (Miill.). Tail composed of iiventy to iiventy-four feathers, large, full, and rounded, the middle pair being about twice as long as the outer pair, and each ornamented with one or a pair of metallic ocelli^ which are rudimentary or absent in the females of some species. PLATE XXVn.
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Wr** CfREY PEACOCK-PHEASANT. THE rEACOCK-PHFASANTS. 6 I First primary flight-feather much shorter than the second,which IS shorter than the tenth ; sixth rather the longest. Sides of the face naked, or very nearly so. The male is generally armed with two, and sometimes threespurs on each leg. Sexes different in plumage. I. THE GREY PEACOCK-PHEASANT. POLYPLECTRON CHINQUIS. Pavo chinquis, Miill. Linn. S. N. Suppl. p. T2I (1776). Pavo tibeianus, Gmel. S. N. i. pt. ii. p. 731 (1788). Polypkctron cii7iqitis, Temm. Pig. et Gall. ii. p. 363 (1813), iii.p. 675 (1815) (part); id. PI. Col. v. pi. 17 (No. 539)(1831) ; Gould, B. Asia, vii. pi. 50 (1871) ; Sclater,P. Z. S. 1879, pi. viii. fig. 2; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit.Mus. xxii. p. 354 (1893). Polyplectron tibetanum, Elliot, Monogr. Phasian. i. pi. 6 (1872);Hume and Marshall, Game Birds Ind. i. p. 105, pi. (1878). Polyplectron atelospilum, P. cyclospiluni, P. e?iicospilitm, G. R.Gray, List Gall. Brit. Mus. pp. 23, 24 (1867). Polyplectron hel

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  • booksubject:Game_and_game_birds
  • booksubject:Upland_game_birds
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