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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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Minima of Tickell, and DiccBum Tickellice olim of Blyth; of which,however, I have recently obtained specimens from Canara. My Shikarees call this littlebird chitloo jitta, a name which they also apply to that curious bird the ParisomaVireoides of my Cat. No. 133; the Fringilla Agilis of Tickell, and Pipra Squalida ofBurton, now made into a new genus, Piprisoma,* by Mr. Blyth, and placed in theDicceum group by him; thus confirming the view of its afiinities held by my Shikarees,which I confess it was some time before I could recognise. I add a description of the Dicceum Concolor. Above brownish olive, wingsand tail darker, beneath greenish white, irides brown. Bill dark plumbeous, legs andfeet brown. Length about 4 inches—wing 2fg—tail 1-jV—tarsus i—bill (front) -rVths, atgape ^ths. The bird is figured on the branch of a tree well known on the Neilgherriesunder the name of the pink arbutus, which is I believe a species of Thibaudia. * Journ. Ae. Soc. 1844, page 394. \ruuA.jcL.
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