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Checit for it. The orange-red bill of hifich (Indian Grackle) has been compared with foG (a red shoot) by 5: -
.......... PASTI Sect चम्पकस्येव कलिकां बिभ्राना चञ्चुकन्दलीम्"
E THRT, 8.708 This seems to strengthen the above identification.
"FICI '' is also the flower of the banana which has a maroon red calyx when open. The Cinnamon-belled Nuthatch, which has deep chest-nut lower parts, can well claim the name for itself. For similar reasons orgot as a would be the large Red Flying Squirrel. PEAFOWLS, JUNGLEFOWLS, PHEASANTS, AND QUAILS
This family includes all birds properly classified by authorities like चरक and 'विष्किराः, through the partial lists of such birds given by them include just a few which according to the present-day scientific classification are outside the order Gallinae but which, from their habit of frequenting the ground either for food or otherwise appeared to belong to the 'Faroche group. For example the list in Rot includes the arata, the short-toed Rufous Lark, and nich, the adjutant Stork, the former of which somewhat resembles the Quail in its habits and the latter seeks its food from refuse heaps like the Common Cock; also ac, the Great Bustard, and ars, the little Bustard-ground birds of Order Grallae which look somewhat like a peacock without the train. सुश्रुत includes नप्तुका, the Nightjar, वातीक, the short-toed Rufous Lark, कलविङ्क, the magpie Robin and Blackbird, HRS, the little Bustard, and also the laughing Thruses and Bablers. The Nightjar keeps to the ground during day-time and others find their food chiefly on the ground. Subject to these exceptions the lists are fairly representative of the Gallinaceous of India
"अभिधानचिन्तामणि gives शिखण्डिक and चर्मचूड in the lists of names for a Cock, and मेदिनी and others have farcit and forcus for both Cock and Peacock. ferafusch and foreit (both meaning 'one having a crest') are best interpreted with reference to the synonymes for fører :
"251 on it turst fyrai farafusoht A:" - Both the terms thus clearly apply to the Peacock and such Cocks have a featherly crest contrasting with the common Cock and Jungle-fowl who have a fleshy comb and are therefore the ones de strictly so called. Fifa $ are, therefore, the Cheer and Kalij Pheasants as a group as a they have featherly crests. For the same reason the Peacock is feifa, Ferala, etc., and Monal is fofa and more specifically ai or home. It has observed the distinction by naming मयूर, कुक्कुट, and यवालक (the 'white-crested Kalij') as representing three different types separately, and in a similar way of names at (Peacock),
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