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Birds of Indian Subcontinent

Genus CENTROCERCUS

Genus CENTROCERCUS.

SAGE-GROUSE.

Tail pheasant-like of twenty feathers. Males with an inflatable air-sac on each side of neck. One species.

C. urophasianus. Male 28" ; weight 8 lbs. Female 22"; weight 5 lbs. Above blackish, mottled buff. Breast and belly mostly black. Chin and throat white, spotted black.— Female : Chin and throat white. Plains of Rocky Mountain Plateau. Pairing begins in March. Males remain apart till young are grown up. Seven to nine eggs (2.2 x 1.5), olive-buff, spotted chocolate.

BookTitle: 
Game, Shore And Water Birds Of India
Reference: 
Le Messurier, Augustus. Game, Shore, and Water Birds of India Fourth Edition, 1904.
Title in Book: 
Genus CENTROCERCUS
Book Author: 
A Le Messurier
Year: 
1904
Page No: 
63
M_ID: 
1021
M_SN: 
Centrocercus
Volume: 
4th ed.
id: 
12637

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