JOURNAL 



OF THE 



Bombay Natural History Society. 



Nov. 1912. Vol. XXI. No. 4. 



THE GAME BIRDS OF INDIA, 

 BURMA AND CEYLON. 



BY 



E. C. Stuart Baker, P.L.S., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. ^ 

 Part VIII. 

 With Plate VIII. 



(Continued from -page 739 of this Volume.) 

 Sypheotis bengalensis. 



The Bengal Florican. 



Otis bengalensis. — Gm. Syst. Nat. i, p. 724 (1788) j Hodgson. 

 J. A. S. B., xvi, p. 883. 



Otis delicosa. — Gray and Hardw., 111. Ind. Zoo!., i, pp. 61 

 and 62. 



Sypheotides bengalensis. — Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Sec, p. 258; 

 Jerdon, B. of Ind. iii, p. 616; Godwin Austin, J. A. S. B. xiv^ 

 part II, p. 84. 



Sypheotis bengalensis. — Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 559 ; id., Hume 

 and Marsh., Game B. i, p. 23, iii, p. 424; Hume, Cat. No. 838, 

 Str. Feath. viii, p. Ill; ihid, ix, p. 199; Markham, ibid^ 

 Fasson, i^icZ, p. 200 ; Butler, ibid, x, p. 162; Hume and Cripps, 

 ihid, xi, p. 312; Oates in Hume's Nest and Eggs, 2nd Edit. iii,. 

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