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p. 450 Pigeon sexual

483 -

485 -

492 Curassows

496 Pterocles

587 Paroquet

509

515 Tragopan or Ceratornis

517

518

521 spurs

523 5 spurs

533 Drumming noise by pheasants— Q [quoted without naming source in Descent 2: 62]

536 ♀ spurred G. Bankiva no comb or wattles:} ← 538 moulting [error]

541 ♀ spurred

542

544

571

574 spurs on every partridge

595 Turnix

598 } Turnix 596

602 Vernal moult in Grallatores.

605 do in Heron, sometimes male alone changes colour.

606 Otis do vernal moult.

A plumule
or
filamentous feathering
(decomposed feathers)

Grouse & Crossoptilon good cases of sexes differing & not differing in allied species. — 804

808

811

815

817

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98

282

344

348

369

383

Many finches differ much sexually but gold-finches little

(Crowned crane Balearica pavonina (Grus Bab.?) see Penny Encyclop.)

615 Otis ♀ no change of color v. moult

X 617 Perhaps old birds always retain nuptial plume

618 Nuptial dance

620 Ear-tuft with disc.

630 double moult no change of colour Glareola

634 Plovers, in some great change of c.

635 do yet sexes not different:

637 Yarrells law X Golden Plover Partial moult (Change by moult & change in feather diet)

647 650 } Plover tubercule been developed into spurs bushy crest

654  { Stone Plover not not double moult seasonal change: sexes alike, protection

662

668  Longirostres in some polygamous

677 } Rhynchaea

678 } Rhynchaea

p. 683

687

696

700 (as difference slight in whole group, not likely to be incipient marriage nuptial plumage)

703

707

709

711

738

744

748

750

762

775

795

797

799

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679 Limosinae seasonal change to rufous.

683 Curlews summer & w. plumage alike

687 Tringinae most a marked seasonal change

696 Totaninae in other cls slight, in others to black or dark

700 Even do in Totanus, 2 types of new change & change

703 Himantopidae— no change in summer — moult?

 07 Parrinae — double moult — nuptial plumage bright tail feathers in one genus become excessively elongated

 09 X 711 } some old birds retain old plumage

738 — sparrows ♀ shorter crest & plumage

744 Herodias. Breeding plumage

748 Nesting I

750 — Bill is not breeding dress, — plumage white

762 Pelican Ibis — deeper nuptial bill

775 N. Flamingo

795 X Anatidae— ♂s many assume ♀ dress for short time

797 X Spatula. do. not quite like ♀

799 X Ducks sexes alike

804 X Dafila acuta speculum in ♀ duller — ♂ said to change by actual change in plumage

808 speculum duller in ♀

811 — do do

815 — do do

817 Mergidae X extraordinary change in feathers themselves. & no double moult.

Reference:

Jerdon, Thomas Claverhill. 1862-1864. The birds of India; being a natural history of all the birds known to inhabit continental India, with descriptions of the species, genera, families, tribes, and orders, and a brief notice of such families as are not found in India, making it a manual of ornithology specially adapted for India. 2 vols. in 3. Calcutta: the author. [A copy ordered, CCD16] vol. 1 PDF vol. 2 pt. 1 PDF vol. 2 pt. 2 PDF