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
Year:
1904
Page No:
63
M_ID:
1021
M_SN:
Centrocercus
Volume:
4th ed.
id:
12637
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