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Birds of Indian Subcontinent

Genus MELANOCORYPHA

Genus MELANOCORYPHA.

Melanocorypha Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 322. Type, Melanocorypha calandra Linn.

In Melanocorypha the bill is thick and gently curved and the nostrils are covered by plumelets ; the wing is very long and has ten primaries of which the first is very minute; the hind claw is long and straight. The sexes are alike.

Key to Species.

A. Wing over 140 mm.; first primary white on outer web …………….M. maxima, p. 311.
B, Wing under 130 mm.; first primary brown on outer web, narrowly edged fulvous…………….M. bimaculata, p. 312.

BookTitle: 
The Fauna Of British India, Including Ceylon And Burma-birds(second Edition)
Reference: 
Baker, EC S (1922–1930) The fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Second edition. vol.3 1926.
Title in Book: 
Genus MELANOCORYPHA
Book Author: 
Edward Charles Stuart Baker
Year: 
1926
Page No: 
311
M_ID: 
21595
M_SN: 
Melanocorypha
Volume: 
Vol. 3
Term name: 
id: 
4074

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