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Jerdon, Dr., on birds dreaming; on the pugnacity of the male bulbul; on the pugnacity of the male Ortygornis gularis; on the spurs of Galloperdix; on the habits of Lobivanellus; on the spoonbill; on the drumming of the Kalij-pheasant; on Indian bustards; on Otis bengalensis; on the ear-tufts of Sypheotides auritus; on the double moults of certain birds; on the moulting of the honeysuckers; on the moulting of bustards, plovers, and drongos; on the spring change of colour in some finches; on display in male birds; on the display of the under-tail coverts by the male bulbul; on the Indian honey-buzzard; on sexual differences in the colour of the eyes of hornbills; on the markings of the Tragopan pheasant; on the nidification of the Orioles; on the nidification of the hornbills; on the Sultan yellow-tit; on Palaeornis javanicus; on the immature plumage of birds; on representative species of birds; on the habits of Turnix; on the continued increase of beauty of the peacock; on coloration in the genus Palaeornis.
Americ.: Birds, pp. 343 and 359; Major W. Ross King, 'The Sportsman in Canada, 1866, p. 156; Mr. Haymond, in Prof. Cox's 'Geol. Survey of Indiana, p. 227; Audubon, 'American Ornitholog. Biograph. vol. i. p. 216. On the Kalij-pheasant, Jerdon, 'Birds of India, vol. iii. p. 533. On the Weavers, Livingstone's 'Expedition to the Zambesi, 1865, p. 425.
The sound thus produced is compared by some to distant thunder, and by others to the quick roll of a drum. The female never drums, "but flies directly to the place where the male is thus engaged." The male of the Kalij-pheasant, in the Himalayas, often makes a singular drumming noise with his wings, not unlike the sound produced by shaking a stiff piece of cloth."
Junonia, sexual differences of colouring in species of. Jupiter, comparison with Assyrian effigies. Kaffir skull, occurrence of the diastema in a. Kaffirs, their cruelty to animals; lice of the; colour of the; engrossment of the handsomest women by the chiefs of the; marriage-customs of the. Kalij-pheasant, drumming of the male; young of. Kallima, resemblance of, to a withered leaf.
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