Pet Birds of Bengal/Glossary
| GLOSSARY | ||
| Biri | … | Indigenous cigarettes |
| Bunds | … | Embankments between two plots of cultivated land marking their boundary |
| Chenna | … | Gram |
| Ekka | … | A two-wheeled horse-driven gig |
| Ghee | … | Clarified butter |
| Jheels | … | Large water-sheets, natural or artificial |
| Jhora | … | A hill-stream running through a gorge |
| Khuskhus | … | A kind of sweetly-scented grass |
| Kunkur | … | Gravel for metalling roads |
| Lal-pugree | … | Lit., red turban; policeman, so-called from the head-gear |
| Lepche | … | A hill-tribe of Sikkim |
| Pan | … | Betel |
| Purdah | … | Screen |
| Rahar | … | A kind of cereal |
| Satoo | … | Flour of gram |
| Svayambara | … | Ancient Indian ceremony of selecting bridegroom by the bride |