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Birds of Indian Subcontinent

Genus COTURNIX

GENUS, Coturnix, Brisson.

Bill somewhat slender, straight or slightly curved ; tarsi without spurs; tail very short, rounded and soft, concealed by the upper tail-coverts; wings lengthened and pointed, the first and second quills longest.

BookTitle: 
Handbook to the Birds of the Bombay Presidency
Reference: 
Barnes, Henry Edwin. Handbook to the birds of the Bombay Presidency, 1885.
Title in Book: 
Genus COTURNIX
Book Author: 
Barnes, H. Edwin
Year: 
1885
Page No: 
315
M_ID: 
1329
M_SN: 
Coturnix
Term name: 
id: 
11923

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