Turkic Finch

Turkic Finch

(notes on materia medica)

Another name: Goose dove, kouzhi (Erya) and sand chicken (Erya Yishu).

[source] it is the meat of Trachinidae.

[animal morphology] hairy legged grouse

The male is about 40 cm long. The mouth is blue gray. The iris is dark brown. The results showed that there were pure yellow in the front of the head, eyebrow lines and side of the head, brown gray in the back of the head and back neck, gray in the side of the neck, and rust red spots on both sides of the throat and back neck base. The upper body is sandy brown, covered with black transverse spots; the shoulder feathers are the same as the back, but the apex is also mixed with chestnut gray spots between the black spots. The speckles on the tail covert are blue gray at the tip of the feather. The two wing coverts and the third-order flight feathers are sandy brown; the third-order flight feathers are mixed with blue gray or even black irregular stripes; the middle covert is decorated with black round spots at the tip; the outer tip of the large covert is dark chestnut, and the front and rear feathers are parallel, forming a chestnut band; the primary flight feathers are mostly blue gray, the first one is very sharp and long, and the end is filiform. The tail is mostly sandy brown, with gray and black stripes. The central tail feather is especially elongated, and the elongated part is very thin and pointed, which is blue gray; the trunk is black brown; the outer tail feather ends are white. The chest is grayish brown; the lower chest is pierced by a light brown band with several black spots; the abdomen is light sandy brown with a large black block in the center; the leg covering feather and tail covering feather are white; the longer tail covering feather has a dark gray feather stripe; the armpit feather is white with black end. Feet only three toed, without hind toe, feathered; claws black. Females have similar plumage color, but white head, neck and back.

They often forage in groups in open areas. The main food is plant seeds. It propagates in Xinjiang, Gansu and Inner Mongolia; it occurs in the south of Northeast China, Hebei and Shandong in winter.

[nature and taste] Compendium: "sweet, hot, non-toxic. "

Functions and indications: materia medica: tonifying deficiency and warming. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: cooking.