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Title: Illustrations of Indian ornithology : containing fifty figures of new, unfigured and interesting species of birds, chiefly from the south of India
Year: 1847 (1840s)
Authors: Jerdon, T. C. (Thomas Claverhill), 1811-1872 Kistnarajoo, C. V., lithographer R. E. B., lithographer Leonard, lithographer Miller, lithographer Linn, lithographer Hunt, Phineas R., 1816-1878, printer American Mission Press (Madras, India), printer Reeve Brothers, printer of plates
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: Madras : Printed by P.R. Hunt, American Mission Press
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onallyfound in the more wooded parts of the country in the Carnatic is only at all common in theneighbourhood of the jungles of the west coast, and is very abundant on the top of theNeilgherries. o. L. Hardioickii Vigors. Bay backed Shrike of Latham. This enters gardensand is the most generally spread of all the Indian Shrikes. 4. L. cristatus L. after Edwards pi. 74., L. rutilus var. A., and L. superci/tomsvar. A. of Latham; L mc/anolis Valenc ; perhaps also white cheeked S. of Latham, andL phoenicurus of Iallas (apud Latham.) This species, only lately accurately defined,escaped my notice when writing the Catalogue of Birds of Southern India, having over-looked it as the young of L. Hardwickii. Tt is found chiefly about hedge rows, and de-tached trees in the more cultivated parts oithe country, and I am inclined to believe ismigratory in the South of India. The L. tephronoius of Vigors, grey backed Strike of Latham. /-. nipalc/isi! ofHodgson, is not found in the South of India. XVffl
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^^t^!igtrrnlii Ci/A^>**^iru3^>, Punf^ -6yLM^CtJff^^/ ORB. INSESSOHES. TRIBE SCANSORES. FAM. PSITTACIB^. GEN. PALMORNIS. PLATE XVIII. PALJEORNIS COLUMBOIDES Vigors. BLUE WINGED PARROQUET. Synon.—P. melanorTiyntlia Sykes, (the female,) Jerdon Cat. No. 203. This elegantly coloured Parroquet belongs to the division long ago characterisedby Vigors, which seems peculiar to the Asiatic province, more especially to the continent oiIndia, and which is, with the exception of Psittaculus, the only form of this family knownin India, and comprises several well marked species. Previously to obtaining this bird*I had heard from several sportsmen of a blue parroquet said to be common in the depthsof the forests of Malabar. I first procured it at Trichoor, and afterwards in various otherlocalities on the West coast, and on the sides of the Neilgherries up to a height of 5000 feet.As Colonel Sykes has it in his Catalogue, it probably extends along the range of westernghauts for some distance, b

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