Identifier: catalogueofbirds00jerd (find matches)
Title: Catalogue of the birds of the peninsula of India, arranged according to the modern system of classification : with brief notes on their habits and geographical distribution, and description of new, doubtful and imperfectly described species
Year: 1844 (1840s)
Authors: Jerdon, T. C. (Thomas Claverhill), 1811-1872
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: (S.l.)
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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GouldsCentury, and besides they are never permanently raised in the positionthere indicated, being kept much more erect, nearly vertical indeed. Genus BULACA, Hodgson, loc. cit.—SCOTIAPTEX, Sw. ? 42.—B. Sinensis.—S. Sinensis, Gray, Gray and Hardw. 111. I. Z.—S. pagodarum, Temm. P. C.—S. stlo-puto, Horsf.—>S. Indranee, Sykes ?—Young bird ? I have only once observed this very elegantly marked species, whichI have referred provisionally to Mr. Hodgsons lately proposed genus.I met it in a tope, and some large single trees, near Verdupettah to theS. of Madura on the Palamcottah road. If, as I suspect, S.pagodarum•dnd.S.selo-puto are identical with this bird, Mr. Grays specific namemust be abandoned. It is an owl of pre-eminent beauty, both as re-gards the shade of the plumage and the softness and delicacy of themarkings. Length (from top of bill) 21 inches; of wing 15 ; tail 7f ; tarsus 2£;middle toe 2-Tyhs; irides, deep brown. Has aharsh and dissonantcry at night. ■
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1.1 uAaa //< i -/^/riZ/r:) l839) of the Peninsula of India. 89 Genus SCOPS, Sav. 43.—S. Javanicus, Less.—S. Lempyi, Horsf. ?_S. nocluIa,Temm ?—In.dian Scops Owl. I procured a single specimen of a small owl, that answers the briefdescription of Lesson, in the western ghauts near the Pena pass. Descriptio».--Above, browaish,varied with ferruginous and blackish.Quill feathers with .he outer webs marked by several st.on-ly defiedbars of buff; beneath of a ferruginous tun, finely vermiculated withbrownish, and the feathers streaked in the centre with blackish Length(trom tip of bill) 9- wing 6; tail 2f, tarsus Tybs; 4th and 5th quillleathers longest, and the 2d is equal to the 7th. Sub Family AETOGLAUCIN^, Hodgson.-Eagle Owls.Genus HUHUA, Hodgson, he. cit.44.—#. pectoralis.—New species *—Ooman, Mai.Description.-^* of a deep sepia brown, having in some lightsa golden tmt; most of the f Khers, especially on the wing courts ter-mis, scapulars and tail, barrel and mot

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