The birds of Calcutta / by Frank Finn.

  • Frank Finn
Date:
1917
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: The birds of Calcutta / by Frank Finn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    certainly does at first sight recall the two birds whose name it bears rather than the ordinary members of its real family. The Crow-pheasant is prescribed in some places as an enemy to game, which, as his general habits resemble those of a magpie, he probably is ; but as he also destroys snakes, it would be better to protect him stringently, since whatever harm he may do to young pheasants or partridges would be in most people’s opinion amply offset by warfare on creatures which are their enemies and ours alike.
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