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Birds of Indian Subcontinent

Genus RHIZOTHERA

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
Book Author: 
Edward Charles Stuart Baker
Year: 
1928
Page No: 
400
M_ID: 
1320
M_SN: 
Rhizothera
Volume: 
Vol. 5
Term name: 
id: 
4713

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