Jerdon

In Egypt it is the Neophron Percnopterus (Jerdon) or N. Gingianus (Latham), the

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

This bird has been known to kill the Báshah sparrow-hawk (Jerdon i. 60); yet, curious to say, the reviewers of my Falconry in the Valley of the

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Jerdon described the call as a plaintive _pi-o_, _pi-o_.

Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916

Jerdon, likewise, states that it ascends the Nilgiris only up to about 6000 feet.

Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916

A small dark sooty brown bird with a broad white bar across the back, a living monoplane that dashes through the air at the rate of 100 miles an hour, continually giving vent to what Jerdon has so well described as a

Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916

"Tits," writes Jerdon, "are excessively bold and even ferocious, the larger ones occasionally destroying young and sickly birds, both in a wild state and in confinement."

Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916

Jerdon describes its cry as "mellow, subdued, and agreeable."

Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916

Jerdon states that he does not remember ever having seen a forktail perch; nevertheless the bird frequently flies on to

Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916

The rufous-bellied niltava (_Niltava sundara_) or fairy blue-chat, as Jerdon calls it, is the kind of bird one would expect to find in fairyland.

Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916

Jerdon states that the food of the _liothrix_ consists of "berries, fruit, seeds, and insects."

Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916