GENUS, Halcyon, Swains.
Bill long, straight, deep, and broad, somewhat quadrangular ; culmen, in some, inclining towards the tip, near which the margin is slightly sinuated; lower mandible angulated ; gonys ascending towards the tip ; wing rather short, third quill longest, fourth and fifth nearly equal; tail short, rounded, or even; feet with the outer toe nearly as long as the middle one, syndactyle for more than half its length; scales of the tarsus obsolete.
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 HALCYON
Year:
1885
Page No:
99
M_ID:
9100
M_SN:
Halcyon
Term name:
id:
11336
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