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Birds of Indian Subcontinent

Genus KETUPA

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
Book Author: 
Barnes, H. Edwin
Year: 
1885
Page No: 
67
M_ID: 
6601
M_SN: 
Ketupa
Term name: 
id: 
11262

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