Identifier: strayfeathersjou41876hume (find matches)
Title: Stray feathers. Journal of ornithology for India and its dependencies
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Hume, Allan Octavian, 1829-1912
Subjects: Birds Ornithology
Publisher: Calcutta : s.n.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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turns out to be not very uncommon in theAndamans, and a good many specimens have been sent to us. 983.—Gelochelidon anglica, Mont. This is another species new to these islands. It was killedby Captain Wimberley, in the S. Andamans, in November, andis, he says, the only one he has seen. The specimen is a rathersmall young female, the primaries very dark, the wing onlyll-5 ; tarsus, l-l ; bill at front, l-5. 986 ter.—Sterna Dougalli, Mont. Though not apparently a constant resident, or even aregular visitant to the Andamans, this species occurs therefrom time to time in large flocks, so much so that duringthe last 18 months I have seen fully 50 specimens. The bills vary in color according to season. In birdskilled in April they are blackish, in May they begin tochange to orange red at the bases. In June only the terminalportions are blackish dusky, and in July the whole of the billhas become red or orange red. (vide ante note, p. 246.) A. 0. H. To face P. 295. Stray Feathers Vol. IV
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295 ilotes on some gixte collects in ifre Casta fit farcponDistrict of ije ;m&rab!>g Delta. By James Armstrong, b.a., m.b., &c. From the latter end of November until the beginning ofMarch, my duties, as officer iu medical charge of the MarineSurvey of India, enabled me to devote a portion of my time tothe study of the avi-fauna belonging- to the Rangoon district ofthe Irrawaddy delta. During this period, so far as I was able,I have made short notes upon the habits of the birds collected,and have carefully recorded in the flesh the different dimensionsof each species met with, in the hope of being able to add some-thing to the general store of ornithological facts. Before giving a detailed account of the different species foundto frequent this district, I shall first endeavour to convey arough idea of the region in which they were collected. By reference to the map it will be seen that the Rangoonriver, after its junction with the Pegu, forms the eastern bound-ary of the Irr

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