GENUS, Parra (METOPODIUS.)
Bill moderate, stout, compressed, thick at the base; culmen curved at the tip ; forehead with a lappet of skin ; tail short; nostrils small, ovate, in the middle of the bill; wings moderate or short, second and third quills longest, first sub-equal, spurred at the shoulder; tarsus long; feet enormous, the toes long and thin, and the claws very long and pointed : hind-claw especially long.
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 PARRA
Year:
1885
Page No:
362
M_ID:
4151
M_SN:
Metopidius
Term name:
id:
12050
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