GENUS, Ketupa, Lesson.
Bill large, strong, deep, moderately long, straight at base, gradually curving beyond the cere, moderately compressed and hooked; nares elliptic, partially exposed; large ear-tufts; disc indistinct ; ears moderate ; -wings rather short, reaching not quite to end of tail; 4th quill longest; tail moderate ; tarsus rather long, or moderate, stout, naked, reticulate; toes naked, finely reticulate, with three or four scales at the base of the nails, moderately long, nervous, compressed; the hind-toe rather large ; soles of the feet aculeate; talons subequal, compressed, cultrated below, (except the middle one) sharp ; inner claw the largest.
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 KETUPA
Year:
1885
Page No:
67
M_ID:
6601
M_SN:
Ketupa
Term name:
id:
11262
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