Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dayal; any bird of the genus Copsichus, as C. saularis of India. See cut under
Copsichus .
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Examples
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In the Himalayas the common cuckoo victimises chiefly pipits, larks, and chats, but its eggs have been found in the nests of many other birds, including the magpie-robin, white-cheeked bulbul, spotted forktail, rufous-backed shrike, and the jungle babbler.
Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916
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Chief of these is the pied singer of Ind -- the magpie-robin or _dhayal_ -- whose song is as beautiful as that of the English robin at his best.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916
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Allied to the magpie-robin and the pied bush-chat is the familiar
A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916
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Among the latter the most prominent are the grey-necked crow, the koel, the myna, the king-crow and the magpie-robin.
Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916
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The voice of the pied crested-cuckoo no longer falls upon the ear, nor does the song of the magpie-robin.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916
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The magpie-robin is comparatively silent at noonday, but from sunset until dusk he sings continuously.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916
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The magpie-robin or _dhayal_, who for months past has uttered no sound, save a scolding note when occasion demanded, now begins to make melody.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916
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The magpie-robin still pours forth his splendid song, but the quality of the music in the case of many individuals is already beginning to fall off.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916
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The golden-backed woodpecker, the green bee-eater, the "blue jay" or roller, the paddy bird, the Indian and the magpie-robin, most familiar birds of the plains, are no longer seen.
Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916
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Other endemics are the Seychelles kestrel (Falco araea VU), Seychelles blue-pigeon (Alectroenas pulcherrima), Seychelles swiftlet (Collocalia elaphra VU), Seychelles bulbul (Hypsipetes crassirostris), Seychelles magpie-robin (Copsychus sechellarum CR), Seychelles warbler (Acrocephalus sechellensis VU), chestnut-sided white-eye (Zosterops mayottensis), Seychelles white-eye (Zosterops modestus CR), and Seychelles fody (Foudia sechellarum VU).
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