Pet Birds of Bengal/Index
INDEX
Ægithina tiphia, 110, 125, 312
Aggia, 128, 130; coloration 162-64; flight 142; ground-feeder 145; habitat of Bengal Bush-Lark 130; habitat of Madras Bush-Lark 131; nidification 150-53; perch 142; resorts 143; song 142
Aggin, 128, see Aggia; habitat 130-31; song 143-44; mimic 143
Alauda arvensis, 127, 129, 137
Alauda gulgula, 127, 137, see Bharat
Alaudula raytal, 132
Alcippe nepalensis, 312
Amsler, Dr., 167
Argya, 312
Astur badius, 303
Babbler, 81, 82, 296, 303, 310, 312
Babbler, Golden-eyed, see Gulab-chasm
Babbler, Yellow-eyed, 77-91; 89
Baker, E. C. Stuart, 100, 125, 224, 243, 288, 297, 298, 305, 308, 313, 336
Ball, 130
Barnes, 133
Basil-Edwardes, Mr. S., 198
Bee-eater, 97
Bharadwaj, 128
Bharat, 126-165; altitude of flight-ascent 139-40; coloration 162; compared with European Sky-Lark 137; dust-bath 142; flight 138-39; habitat 129; nidification 151-52; resorts 140-41; roosting 141; Sanskrit name 128; sings under fear and excitement 140; soaring compared with birds of prey 140; sociability varies with season 141; song 137-39
Bhimraj, 222-39, 271; albinism 237-38; attacking a dog 227-28; attractive character and plumage 223; captivity 232-35; careless about territorial rights 228; coloration 235-39; difference between birds from Northern and Southern India 235-36; dislike for Wood-pecker 226; division into species of the genus dissemurus 224-25; food 230; food in captivity 234, 235; flight 229; habitat 225-26; idea of fun 227; Indians adept in bird-keeping 222-23; manner of preying 228-29; mimicry 231, 233; nidification 231-32; not unsociable 228; predatory nature 226-27; resorts 226; song 230-31; tail 229-30; tameness 233; unfit for mixed aviary 232
Bingham, Major, 227
Blackbird, Ceylon, 212
Blackbird, Grey-winged, see Kasturi
Blackbird, South-Indian, 211
Blanford, 288
Blue-throat, Indian, 67, 73, see Hussaini Piddah
Blyth 35, 130, 149, 276, 295
Bombay Natural History Society 290
{{{1}}}„ Journal of, 183, 237, 243, 261, 290
Bou-kathā-kao, 286; beneficial bird 309-10; birds generally victimised by it 312; call-notes 308; captivity 315; coloration 320; cover for cages a necessity during rains 315; eggs 313; food in captivity 316; habitat 288; held in great esteem 316; resorts 304; sweeter voice 316; too secretive for aviaries 317; winter migrant in Ceylon 288
Brain-fever bird, 303, 307, 308
Brooks, 138
Bulbul, 92, 94, 98, 122, 306, 312
Bulbul, Bush, 122
Bulbul, Gold-fronted green, 92
Bulbul, Green, 99, 102
Butea frondosa, 60
Butler, Dr. A. G., 104, 217, 258, 276, 280
Butler, Dr. Fanny, 276
Calliope camatschatkensis, 73
Carpodacus erythrinus, 265
Carpodacus erythrinus roseatus, 265
Cercomela fusca, 184
Chat 48, 76, 325
Chat, Common Pied Bush, 35-47, 53, 54
Chat, Indian Blue, 312
Chat, Indian Bush, 49, see Kher-piddah
Chat, The Brown Rock, 184
Chat, Stone, 55
Chatak 115, 123
Chendool, 128; coloration 164-65; flight 145-46; food 148; habitat 131-32; migratory 153; mimicry 146; nidification 153-54; not gregarious 148; resorts 145; song 145-48
Chimarrhornis leucocephalus, 197
Chloropsis, 122
Chloropsis aurifrons, 92, 92-109, 107, 336
Chloropsis, gold-fronted, 100, see Harewa
Chloropsis hardwickii, 107
Chloropsis jerdoni, 97, 100, 101, 336,
Cittocincla macrura, 1
Coccystes jacobinus, 115, 286, 289, 290, 296, 305, 310, 313, 322
Copsychus saularis, 19
Corvus macrorhyncus, 312
Corvus splendens, 312
Crateropus, 312
Criniger flavcolus, 184
Crow, 292; attacking Shah-bulbul 306; hatred against the Koel 293; how outwitted by the koel 294-95 resemblance of its eggs eggs with those of koel 312; two species victimised by koel 312
Cuckoo, 284-321; relation of the coloration of their eggs with those of their hosts 313; four species commonly caged in India 286
Cuckoo, Hawk, see Pāpiyā
Cuckoo, Indian, see Bou-kathā-kao
Cuckoo, Pied Crested, see Shah Bulbul
Cuculidae, 286
Cuculus canorus, 298, 299
Cuculus micropterus, 231, 286, 288, 304, 308, 310, 312, 313, 322
Cunningham, 302, 306
Cyanecula suecica, 67
Dama, 166-86, 187, 195, 208, 219, 325, 337-338; abnormal form 183-84; beneficial bird 174; breeding in captivity 179; captivity 177-82; coloration 183-84, 338; coloration of White-throated Ground Thrush 175; courting habits 179-81; feeding habits 173-74; food in captivity 178; habitat 168-69; Indian style of caging 177-78; Is it a mimic? 182; mating season 176; movements 170, 172; nidification 176-77; not strictly a ground bird 169; partial migrant 170; protective coloration 171-72; quarrels between males 181-82; resorts 169-70; shy and cautious 170-71; so-called Dama 184-86; solitary and silent 174-75; song 167, 175, 178-79; song of White-throated Ground Thrush 175; White-throated Ground Thrush a mimic 182; why called a Ground Thrush 172
Davison, 274
Dewar, 59, 114, 132, 185, 296, 299, 301, 318
Dhayal, 19-34, 35, 36, 37, 42, 45, 50, 53, 56, 59, 61, 64, 66, 77, 83, 92, 174, 241, 242, 263 325, 331-36; always nests in the same locality 29; argument against caging 31; bath 30; beneficial 28; breeding in captivity 31-32, 331-36; captivity 30-32; cock killing nestlings 32, 336; coloration 32-34; favourite haunts 19, 20, 22, 26; feeding habits 23, 25; fighting bird in Nepal 21; fights with the Shama 332; flight 27; gregariousness 24; habitat 21; idea of territory 27; incubation period 335; love-displays by a hen 332; by cock 334; mating period 28; mimic 20; monogamous 29; nesting in captivity 334-35; nidification 29-30, 334-36; pugnacity 20, 23, 24, 25-26, 332-33; pugnacity leading to capture 24-25; song 19-20, 22-23, 26, 28; tail-play 26; tournament 24; why called Magpie-Robin 19
Dissemurus alcocki, 238
Dissemurus paradiseus, 222, 224
Dissemurus paradiseus grandis, 225
Drongo, 99
Drongo, Racket-tailed, 222, see Bhimraj
Eha, 114, 119, 133
Eudynamis 288
Eudynamis honorata, 231, 284, 286, 288, 291
Fatik-jal, 110-26; ancient classification with Chloropsis 112; beneficial 117; captivity 120-23; coloration 123-26; conduct when disturbed 118; controversy about breeding plumage 124-26; family party 116-17; flight 117, 118; food 117; habitat 111-12; habits 115-18; haunts 112-13, identity with Chātak 115; languishes in captivity 110, 120-21; mating period 119; meaning of the name 11O; nidification 119-20; roosting 117; soft feathers 121; song 111, 113-14; strange way of drinking 123; two moults a year 122; whether a songster 114
Fauna of British India, 224, 336, 337
Fergusson, 290
Finch, Hobson's Rose, 265, see Tuti
Finch, Rose, 268
Finch, Scarlet Rose, see Tuti
Fitzgerald, Miss., 192, 201
Flacourtia ramontchi, 99
Fly-catcher, 37
Fringillidae, 275, 278
Galerita cristata, 131
Garrulus lanceolatus, 211
Geocichla citrina, 166, 175, 183, 184, 187, 195
{{{1}}}„ cyanonotus, 175
Gould, 20
Gulab-chasm. 77-91; bold in captivity 79, 88; captivity 88-90; coIoration 90-91; esprit de corps 83-85; food captivity in 90; gregariousness 78, 83; habitat 79; habits 78; how captured 89; mating season 86; meaning of the name 78; nidification 86-88; quarrelsome temper 90; resorts 79-81; shyness 78; song and call-notes 81, 83, 85, 89; way of feeding 82-83
Harewa, 92-109; 336-37 bath 105; beneficial in tea-plantations 96; cage vs aviary 104-05; captivity 102-07; chloropsis hardwickii 107; coloration 107-09; disease in captivity 107; effect of light on plumage 105-06; food 95-97; food in captivity 106; gregarious or not 100, 336-38; habitat 93-94; haunts and habits 94-95, 97-98; Indian way of caging 103; markets for sale 104; merits as cage-pet 102-03; mimicry 92, 99, 102, 103; nidification 100-01; protective livery 93, 95; quarrelsome 104; scuffles with parrots 99; song 92, 98-99; term 'green Bulbul' a mistake 93; unsociability 99
Harvey, Lindsay, 296, 297
Hawk-cuckoo, see Pāpiyā
Henderson, 270
Hierococcyx varius, 286, 287, 302, 313
Honey-sucker, 106
Hornbill, Malabar Grey, 231
Hume, 52, 136, 257, 270
Hundred-tongued, 15
Hussaini Piddah, 67-72; captivity 70-71; coloration 71-72; habitat 68; migration 68; mimic 69, 70; movements 68; resorts 68; song 69; song-flight 70; steadying new captives 71; tail-play 68-69
Inglis, 183
Iora, 110, 110-26, 112, 312, see Fatik-jal
Jay, Black-throated, 211
{{{1}}}„ Blue, 64
Jerdon, 130, 133, 219
Kālā-piddah, 36, 48
Kāli-Shama, 56-66; appearance 57, 63; bath 63; boldness 61, 64, 65; captivity 63-65; coloration 65-66; comparison with the Piddah 57-58; distribution of Northern and Southern species 58-59; habitat 58-59; interpretation of the name 57; manner of insect-catching 60; nesting period 62; nidification 62-63; protective coloration 65; resorts 59-61, 63, 64; song 61; sun-bath 63, 64; tail-play 59, 61, 64; unsociability 61-62, 64
Kasturā, 187, 188-205, 207, 209, 271; bath 200; captivity 200-04; carnivorous taste 193; coloration 204-05; contrast with Dama 195-96; feeding habits 194, 195; fisher 194; food in captivity 200, 204; habitat 190-91; idea of territory 196; mimic 201; murderous inclination in aviary 200; nidification 197-200 resorts 193-95; secretive 195; song 188, 192; tail-action 195; tameness 201; thrush and not babbler 189-90; whistling note 191-92
Kasturi, 188, 205-18; attacks Himalayan Whistling Thrush 211; attractive qualities as a pet 206; bath 215; captivity 214-18; coloration 218; food in captivity 215; habitat 206-07; how caged in India 214; hybrid with English Blackbird 217-18; manner of bathing 209; mimicry in nature 207; nidification 212-14; pugnacity 210-11, 216; resorts 207; secretive 208-09; solitary habits 209; song 207, 209, 215-16; song connected with sound of falling water 215-16; tail-play 209; vulgar way of feeding 215
Khanjan, 240-64; captivity 258-63; coloration 263-64; cross between Pied and Grey Wagtails 261; flight 251; flirtation 249; food 253-54; gait 251-52; gregariousness 249-50; habitat 244-16; idea of territory 254; ideal aviary bird 258; Indian cages 259; Indian prejudice against caging it 241; Is Motacilla maderaspatensis a sub-species? 243-44; love-song and song contests 246, 250; nidification 255-58; queer nesting sites 256-57; quest for food 254; resemblance with the Dhayal 241; resorts 246-48; restricted application of the term to a particular species 240; restricted range in Bengal 242; song 241, 242; super-abundance of energy 253; uncompanionable with other Khanjans 260; unlike its European congener does not use the nests of other birds 257
Kher-piddah, 49-55; appearance 50; captivity 53-54; coloration in summer 54, in winter 55; habitat 52; migration 51; nesting time 52; nidification 52-53; resorts 50; song 49, 53, 55; tail-play 50
Koel, 284-322; and its allies 284-322; beneficial bird 309-10; call 306-07; captivity 314-16; coloration 318-19; coloration connected with parasitism 302; cunning 203; does young koel eject foster-brothers? 298-300; disliked by English residents 285; female destroying eggs of hosts 295-96; female takes charge of young, according to Oates 300-01; flight 294, 295; food in captivity 314, 315; frugivorous 292, 310; habitat 288-89; Indian cages 315; method of outwitting crows 294-95; popular with Indians 284-85, 314; resemblance between koel's and crow's eggs 312; resident in some places of Bengal 290-91; resorts 291-292; song in captivity 316; superfluous in aviaries of Indian Zoo Gardens 317; victimises two species of crows 312; whether female carries eggs in bills to place in nest 297-98; young hand-fed for longer period 315; young very clamorous 301
Kokil, 306
Lark, 126-65, 258, 259; adaptibility to climatic conditions 136-37; breeding in captivity 158-61; captivity 155-61; economically beneficial 150; Eha on the field-observation of Larks 133-34; first-hand field observation meagre 133-34; food 149; food in captivity 157; Indian cages 155-57; intimate with keeper 157; Is caging Larks a cruelty? 128-29; Larks as food 137; mock-combats 136
Lark, Bengal Bush, sec Aggia
{{{1}}}„ Crested, see Chendool
{{{1}}}„ Ganges Sand, see Retal
{{{1}}}„ Madras Bush, see Aggia
{{{1}}}„ Red-winged Bush, 131
{{{1}}}„ Singing Bush, see Aggin
Larvivora brunnea, 312
Layard, 20, 114
Leaf-bird, 95
Legge, 6, 20, 100, 114, 122, 124, 137, 151, 169, 246, 257, 336
Leothrix, 122
Magpie, 19
Magrath, Major, 216
Mandal, G. C., 11
Mason, 310
Merula boulboul, 187, 205
{{{1}}}„ bourdilloni, 207
Merula kinnisi, 212
{{{1}}}„ simillima, 206
{{{1}}}„ unicolor, 218, 338
Migrants, 287
{{{1}}}„ partial, 287
{{{1}}}„ true, 287
Mirafra affinis, 131
{{{1}}}„ assamica, 130
{{{1}}}„ cantillans, 130
{{{1}}}„ crythroptera, 131
Molpastes bengalensis, 312
Molpastes leucotis 336
Motacilla alba, 260
{{{1}}}„ alba maderaspatensis, 243
{{{1}}}„ lugubris, 257
{{{1}}}„ maderaspatensis, 240, 242, 244, 250, 263
{{{1}}}„ melanope, 257
Munia, 281
Munn, P. W., 74, 118, 124
Myiophoneus eugenii, 191
{{{1}}}„ horsfieldi 191
{{{1}}}„ temminckii, 187, 191, 207
Naidu, Mrs. Sarojini, 308
Nightingale, 1
Nilkanthi, 67
Niltava sundara, 312
Oates, 42, 74, 100, 122, 124, 130, 132, 133, 138, 148, 149, 152, 168, 187, 189, 224, 243, 288, 289, 295, 300, 301, 319, 337
Ornament of the forest, 102
Ortolan, 137
Ouzel, Grey-winged, see Kasturi
{{{1}}}„ Tickell's, 218-221, 339-41; breeding in captivity 338-40; captivity 220-21; coloration 221; habitat 219, 220; manner of feeding 219-20; nidification 220, 339-40; song 219, 220, 339
Palās, 60
Pāpiyā, 286; ailments 316; beneficial 309-10; birds victimised by it 312; call 306, 307-08; captivity 315 coloration 319-20; covering for cages a necessity during rains 315; eggs 313; food in captivity 316; habitat 287-88; may frighten smaller birds in aviaries 317; mobbed by Babblers 303; perching habit 303; resemblance with Astur badius 303; resident bird 287; risk of being mobbed in aviaries 317; victimises Babblers 303
Parrots, 20, 99, 100
Phillips, Reginald, 12, 172, 175, 181, 182, 235, 331
Piddah, 35-48, 50, 56, 57, 58, 64, 66; appearance 36; boldness 39; captivity 44-46; coloration 46-47; food 39; habitat 36-37; movements 39-40; nidification 42-43; pugnacity 41, 45; resorts 37-39; song 35, 41-42; sounds of anger 40; tail-play 40
{{{1}}}„ Hussaini, 67-72
{{{1}}}„ Kālā, 36, 48
{{{1}}}„ Kher, 49-55
Pratincola caprata, 35, 48, 57
{{{1}}}„ maura, 49
Protective coloration, 65, 93, 95, 171-72, 272
Puttoo, 167
Pyctorhis nasalis, 79
{{{1}}}„ sinensis, 77
Red-start, 45, 186
Red-start, Plumbeous, 197
{{{1}}}„ White-capped, 197
Retal, 128; adaptibility to climatic conditions 136 coloration 165; flight 149; habitat 132-33; nidification 154; resorts 148; song 149
Rhyacornis fuliginosus, 197
Robin, 14, 19, 35, 45, 48, 61, 67
{{{1}}}„ Golden Bush, 312
{{{1}}}„ Indian, 56-66
{{{1}}}„ Indian Black-backed, 58
{{{1}}}„ Brown-backed, 58
{{{1}}}„ Magpie, 19, 232, see Dhayal
Ruby throat, the Common, 73-76; captivity 76; coloration 74-76; habitat 74; shyness 74; song 74; winter visitor 74
Russ, Dr., 279
Ruticillas, 45
Sand-Lark, see Retal
Sanyal, 107
Satoo, 13, 14, 54, 63, 106
Seebohm, 276
Selous, 135, 278
Seven Sisters, 83
Shah-bulbul, 286; arrival in Bengal 305; attacked by crows 306; beneficial 309-10; birds victimised by it 312; coloration 321; disliked by bulbuls 306; eggs 313; feeds on ground 305; flight 309; food in captivity 317; habitat 289-90; habit of destroying eggs of hosts 296-97; insectivorous 317; notes 309; partial migrant 290; rare as a captive 316; resident in Ceylon 200; resorts 305; silent when perching 309; young fed on caterpillars by foster-parents 310
Shama, 1-18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 30, 33, 34, 35, 37, 45, 53, 57, 64, 77, 83, 92, 103, 122, 133, 140, 174, 186, 222, 233, 325-331, 340; bath 15; breeding in captivity 11-12; captivity 9-16; coloration, male 16-17, female 17-18, young 18; coquetish displays 327; courtship 327; diseases 14; fights with Dhayal 332-33; flight 6, 7; food 7; food in captivity 12, 14; food of young 12-13, 330; habitat 4-5; incubation period 12, 331; idea of sanitation 13; Indian way of caging 2-3; manner of feeding 7; manner of feeding young 331; mating period 8; meaning of the name 2; mimicry 15; nests in captivity 328; nidification 8-9, 328-331; resorts 5-6; song 1-2, 6-7, 14-15, 327; tail-play 7, 10; winter visitant to Cachar 5; unmotherly hen-bird 328-29; unsociability 7-8, 10-11, 15-16
Shikra, 303
Shrike, 122
Sky-Lark, 127, 129, see Bharat
Sonepur fair, 104
Stone-chat, 55
Sunbird, 97
Suya crinigera, 312
Sylvidae, 122
Tarsiger crysocus, 312
Thamnobia, 45, 48, 58, 59, 66, 171
Thamnobia cambaiensis, 56, 56-66, 68
{{{1}}}„ fulicata, 58
Thrush, Ground, Dusky, 219
Thrush Orange-headed Ground, see Dāmā
{{{1}}}„ White-throated, Ground 175, 179, 182
{{{1}}}„ Himalayan Streaked Laughing, 312
{{{1}}}„ Himalayan Striated Laughing, 312
{{{1}}}„ Himalayan Whistling, 187, 208, 211, see Kastura
{{{1}}}„ Malabar Whistling, 189
{{{1}}}„ Western Variegated Laughing, 312
Ticehurst, Mr. Claude B., 243
Tickell, 308
Tit, 97, 115
Trochalopterum lineatum, 312
{{{1}}}„ simile, 312
Tuti, 265-83; breeding in captivity 279; captivity 280-82; coloration 282-83; food 274-75; food in captivity 281-82; gregariousness 270-71; habitat 268-70; loss of colour in captivity 280-81; mass-favourite 266; migratory movements 268-70; nidification 278-80; no protective coloration 272; pugnacity 274; resorts 274; song 275-76, 277; song and beauty united in it 277-78; timidity and alertness as protective characters 272-73
Wagtail, 68, 70, 71, 145, 169
{{{1}}}„ Grey, 257
{{{1}}}„ Large Pied, see Khanjan
Warbler, 123
{{{1}}}„ Brown Hill 312
White-eye, 115
Wood-pecker, 226
{{{1}}}„ Malabar Black, 231
Zoological Gardens, Calcutta, 11, 107, 234