23-468: Littledale may refer to: People [ edit ] Harold Littledale (1853–1930), professor of English Joseph Littledale (1767–1842), a British judge Richard Frederick Littledale (1833–1890), an Anglo-Irish clergyman and writer Ronald Littledale (1902–1944), a British Army officer and POW St. George Littledale (1851–1931), an English explorer of Central Asia Thomas Littledale (1850–1938),
46-528: A British Olympic sailor Places [ edit ] Caton-with-Littledale , a civil parish in Lancashire, including the village of Littledale Littledale Hall , a former country house in Lancashire See also [ edit ] Littledale's whistling rat , a species of rat Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
69-417: A black head, neck and lower parts. However, his throat is white. Around three 4 inch long, ribbon-like feathers arise from behind the ear-coverts on each side of the head and extend backwards, curving up and ending in spatulate tip. The back and scapulars are mottled in white with V-shaped marks. The wing coverts are white. After the breedings season, the male tends to have some white in the wing. The female
92-445: A cause of decline in the numbers of the lesser florican . He was a proponent of introducing game species for the purpose of hunting and suggested the introduction of chukar into western India. In 1897 he suggested that notes be collated from observers to augment the earlier works on birds. He shot tigers around Baroda, and also documented folklore such as the use of tigress' milk as medicine. A collection of birds eggs that he made
115-862: A distinct U-shaped mark on the neck near the throat. The species was formerly more widespread across much of Indian Sub-continent, but not in Sri Lanka. It breeds mainly in the central and western parts of India. Historic records exist from the Makran coast of Balochistan province in Pakistan. A record from Burma has been questioned. The species is said to move in response to rainfall and their presence at locations can be erratic, with sudden large numbers in some seasons. About 500 males in Gujarat were ringed and nearly 18 were recovered, most of them within about 50 kilometres of their ringing sites. The preferred habitat
138-588: A vice principal at Baroda College . He became a director of vernacular instruction in Baroda State (1879–99). He was also a Fellow of Bombay University . Littledale travelled across the Himalayas, camping and shooting. He published a pamphlet Rough Notes of Travel and Sport in Kashmir and Little Thibet (1888) which was considered an amusing account. He travelled with the geologist Robert Bruce Foote who
161-487: Is monotypic : no subspecies are recognised. The two species of smaller bustards have been called "floricans". The word has been thought to be of Dutch origin. The genus Sypheotides earlier included what is now Houbaropsis bengalensis (or Bengal florican), the two species being small and showing reverse sexual size dimorphism. The tarsus is long in Sypheotides and the seasonal plumage change in male has led to
184-467: Is correct. The horizontal body carriage, size and habit of holding up their tail feathers when walking on the ground have led their local names to make associations with peacocks, with a popular name being the equivalent of "grass peacock" (such as khar-mor , tan-mor ) in some areas. the name Likh is used in northwestern India and adopted by British sportsmen in India. A male in breeding plumage has
207-510: Is grasslands but it sometimes occurs in fields such as those of cotton and lentils. Breeding areas are today restricted mainly to Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, some areas in southern Nepal and parts of Andhra Pradesh. Managing florican habitats as grassland interspersed with croplands and pastures spared rotationally provided optimal results at low production-level. These bustards are found either singly or in pairs in thick grassland or sometimes in crop fields. Indigenous tribal hunters regularly shot
230-520: Is larger and lacks the white throat, collar and elongated plumes. In 1782 the English illustrator John Frederick Miller included a hand-coloured plate of a female lesser florican in his Icones animalium et plantarum . He coined the binomial name Otis indica . It is now the only species placed in the genus Sypheotides that was introduced in 1839 by the French naturalist René Lesson . The species
253-415: Is slightly larger than the male. The females and males in non breeding plumage are buff with black streaks with darker markings on the head and neck. The back is mottled and barred in black. The neck and upper breast are buff with the streaks decreasing towards the belly. The outer primaries of the males are thin and notched on the inner-web. The leg are pale yellow and the iris is yellow. Young birds have
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#1732790685970276-479: The likh or kharmore , is the smallest in the bustard family and the only member of the genus Sypheotides . It is endemic to the Indian Subcontinent where it is found in tall grasslands and is best known for the leaping breeding displays made by the males during the monsoon season. The male has a contrasting black and white breeding plumage and distinctive elongated head feathers that extend behind
299-528: The apogee of the leap the neck is arched backwards and the legs folded as if in a sitting posture. These jumps are repeated after intervals of about three or more minutes. The displays are made mainly in the early mornings and late evenings, but during other parts of the day in cloudy weather. The breeding system is said to be a dispersed lek with each male holding a territory of about 1-2 hectares. Males are said to favour particular display sites and shooting of these displaying birds has led to sharp declines in
322-523: The early hours of mornings or in the evenings, except in the case of newly migrated birds which feed throughout the day. The breeding season varies with the onset of the Southwest Monsoon and is September to October in northern India and April to May in parts of southern India. During the breeding season, males leap suddenly from the grass with a peculiar croaking or knocking call, flutter their wings and fall back with slightly open wings. At
345-638: The males during the breeding season, as they were easy to spot because of their courtship display. It was said to be good for eating but considered inferior to the meat of the Bengal florican. They fly faster than other bustards and give a duck-like impression in flight. Lesser floricans feed on a wide variety of small vertebrates and invertebrates which include worms , centipedes , lizards , frogs and insects such as locusts , flying ants and hairy caterpillars . They are also known to feed on shoots and seeds, herbs and berries. Usually floricans feed during
368-453: The neck. These bustards are found mainly in northwestern and central India during the summer but are found more widely distributed across India in winter. The species is highly endangered and has been extirpated in some parts of its range such as Pakistan . It is threatened both by hunting and habitat degradation. The only similar species is the Bengal florican ( Houbarobsis bengalensis ) which
391-407: The populations in the past. Lek sites tend to have flat ground with low vegetation and good visibility and well used sites usually show signs of trampling. Females have a defensive display at nest which involves spreading their wings, tail and neck feathers. The females are said to produce a whistling call which attracts males. Males are aggressive towards other males in the neighbourhood. The nest
414-465: The retention of the separate genus, although the two genera are evolutionarily close. Male and female plumages were initially thought of as separate species leading to the names aurita and indica and the species has been placed in the past in the genera Otis , Eupodotis and Sypheotis . The species ending which is related to the gender of the Latin genus has been debated and it believed that indicus
437-510: The title Littledale . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Littledale&oldid=1030992729 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Harold Littledale Harold Littledale (3 October 1853 – 11 May 1930)
460-549: Was a professor of English who worked in India. He published commentaries on the works of Tennyson , Wordsworth and Coleridge . He was also a naturalist who documented bird life mainly in western India. Littledale was born in Rathgar to Dublin solicitor William Francis Littledale and Jane Cross. Educated at the Royal School, Armagh and Trinity College, Dublin with a BA (1876) he went to India in 1879 where he served as
483-565: Was purchased by the Baroda Museum. Littledale married Ana (Annapurna Turkhud) the daughter of Atmaram Pandurang on November 11, 1880, and they had a daughter Ana Nelline and a son Harold Aylmer. After the death of his wife in Edinburgh in 1891, Littledale married Sybil Frances Hanbury and they had five children among whom married the cricketer Clarence Vivian Paull. Littledale left Baroda in 1898 and his position as professor of English
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#1732790685970506-489: Was surveying the Baroda State. A keen naturalist, sportsman, and collector of bird eggs, he wrote extensively on his observations from around India and contributed notes to various journals including Stray Feathers edited by A.O. Hume and later the journal of the Bombay Natural History Society of which he was an early member. While being a sport hunter himself, he saw native snaring of birds as
529-591: Was taken by Sri Aurobindo . He was professor of English at Cardiff University from 1899 until his retirement in 1921. At Grangetown , he founded a Shakespeare reading circle in 1910. A collection made by Littledale of photographs from India, including pictures from Nainital before the 1880 landslide are held in the Cambridge University Library. He died at Southbourne, Bournemouth. Lesser florican Sypheotis aurita The lesser florican ( Sypheotides indicus ), also known as
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