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Birds of Indian Subcontinent

Taccocua sirkee

Taccocua sirkee, Gray.

220. :- Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 353 ; Butler, Guzerat; Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 461; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 118.

THE BENGAL SIRKEER.

Length, 17 ; wing, 6 ; tail, 9.5.

Above, pale satin-brown; beneath ashy-brown on the foreneck and breast, tinged with ferruginous, and passing gradually into the ferruginous of the belly, flanks and tibial plumes ; this hue is darker here than in the last, and browner about the vent and under tail-coverts; feathers of the head and neck also black shafted.

The Bengal Sirkeer is not uncommon in Northern Guzerat and Sind ; its habits much resemble those of the last.

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: 
Taccocua sirkee
Spp Author: 
Gray.
Book Author: 
Barnes, H. Edwin
Year: 
1885
Page No: 
134
Common name: 
Bengal Sirkeer
M_ID: 
6004
M_SN: 
Taccocua leschenaultii sirkee
id: 
11433

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