Genus RHIZOTHERA.
Rhizothera Gray, List Gen. Birds, 2nd ed., p. 79 (1841).
Type, Perdix longirostris Temm.
The genus Rhizothera contains a single species of Partridge at once distinguished from all others by its long, heavy and much bent down bill. The tail has twelve feathers ; the wing is short and rounded, the first primary about equal to the tenth and the fifth and sixth subequal and longest; the tarsi are stout and long and are furnished with short blunt spurs in both sexes; the claws are straight and small and there is a small hind claw. The sexes differ from one another in coloration.
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.5 1928.
Title in Book:
Genus RHIZOTHERA
Year:
1928
Page No:
400
M_ID:
1320
M_SN:
Rhizothera
Volume:
Vol. 5
Term name:
id:
4713
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