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Title: Illustrations of Indian ornithology : containing fifty figures of new, unfigured and interesting species of birds, chiefly from the south of India
Year: 1847 (1840s)
Authors: Jerdon, T. C. (Thomas Claverhill), 1811-1872 Kistnarajoo, C. V., lithographer R. E. B., lithographer Leonard, lithographer Miller, lithographer Linn, lithographer Hunt, Phineas R., 1816-1878, printer American Mission Press (Madras, India), printer Reeve Brothers, printer of plates
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: Madras : Printed by P.R. Hunt, American Mission Press
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-Jf^ ?Tir.t*d hj i;(^7f» brotiicrS. rtTT^riP ORD. jR^SOMES. FAM. TETBAONIBm. GEN. PTEROCLES. PLATE XXXVI.PTEROCLES QUADRICINCTUS. PAINTED ROCK-GROUSE. FEMALE. A riGCRE of the male bird, with a full account of its habits, having already-appeared at Plate X. of the present work, I can only add here, that it is said tobe identical with the bird from Western Africa. I have had this bird in confinementfor a few days, and its call when alarmed was very grouse-like. Description.—Plumage generally ochreons yellow, (the feathers when freshmoulted having a strong tinge of pink) spotted and barred with dark brown; beneathpale ashey, finely barred with broAvn; quills as in the male bird.
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\.f;!ti>:-i l; ORD. INSESSORES. FAM. BRACHYPODINM. GEN. BRACHYPUS. PLATE XXXVILBRACHYPUS RUBINEUS. RUBY THROATED BULBUL. Synon.—Brachypus Gularis.—Gould, Proc. Zoo. Soc.—1835. I HAVE only found the Ruby Throated Bulbul in Malabar, generally in openglades of the forest, and in the neighbourhood of water, frequenting trees and bushesin small flocks, and feeding on various fruits and berries. It is certainly a rarebird, though I have seen it in one or two collections made in Malabar and Tra-vancore. Sometime ago I suggested to Mr. Blyth that it may have been Gouldsspecies Gularis, described from Travancore, but the description of the throat isomitted, probably through mistake, as the specific name is derived therefrom. Mr.Blyth in his synopsis of the Brachypodinse, before alluded to,* has made a newgenus for this and Horsfields Turdus dispar, (which closely resembles our bird) underthe name of Rubigula. Description.—Head and cheeks pure glossy black; plumage above, yellowishgr

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