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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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glossygreen, tail feathers tipped white ; beneath light dusky greyish, tinged with ferruginous onbreast, and the feathers of the throat and neck dark at their bases. Length about 15 inches—of which the tail is nearly 10—wing 5j—bill to forehead 1 inch—at gape 1;—tai-susIruths—weighs 2 oz. 12 drachms, A closely allied species to this is the Zanclostomus trietis, Melias tristis of Lesson,and the Phanicoplimus longicandatus of Blyths )\Ionograph of the Indian Cuculidce, whichthat gentleman informs me he considers identical. This species inhabits Nepal and the Zanchstomus viridirostris. Tenasseriiii provinces. It bears a very close reserablance in colour to our Penin^ar bird,but is much, larger, being £3 inches long, of which the tail is 16f. The only other ascer-tained Indian species of this genus is Zanclosiomus Sirkeer, the Eudynamys Sirkee of Grayand Hardwick, and Sirkee Cuckoo of Latham, which I have found, though mu.ch morerarely, iu the same localities as the last. TV
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.-^ct-^^jifl -i^i?<^-«7j -^■^■^ /,/ tfl-yti-^/^,,^,,^;,^^ ORD. RAPTORES. TRIBE—FALCON I DM. FAM. ACCIPITRINjE.GEN. ACCIPITER. PLATE IV. ACCIPITER BESRA—Jerdon. THE BESRA HAWK. Synon.—Accip. minutus, Auct. ?—Ace. Dussumierii of Sytes Catalogue 1—Ace. fringilla-nWjJerdon—Catalogue No. 35?—Ace. BeSra do.. No. 34, Madras Journal, No. xxiv.Besra, (tlie female.) Dliotee, (the male,) in Hindustani. Vaishtapa Byaga, in Teloogoo.Oor cMtlee, Canarese of tlie Halapyk caste. At No. 34 of my Catalogue of Birds of Southern India, I very briefly indicatedthis species, from Mr. Elliots notes, never having to my knowledge at that time seen theBesra, while under No. 35, I described a Hawk procured by me on the Coonoor pass of theNeilgherries in thick forest, which, if not identical with the Besra, is a very closely alliedspecies. Since that Catalogue was published I have seen two living specimens of theBesra, and have procured the skin of another, and am thus enabled to present to

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