GENUS, Palaeornis, Vigors.
Bill short; culmen rounded, well curved, toothed, and Avith the tip acute, not much deeper than it is long; lower mandible short ; wings long, with the second and third quills sub-equal and longest; tail very long, cuneate; the feathers narrow, almost linear, with their tips obtuse, and the two middle feathers in general exceeding the others.
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 PALAEORNIS
Year:
1885
Page No:
107
M_ID:
11897
M_SN:
Psittacula
Term name:
id:
11359
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