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The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society

1936

The generic name derived from the Greek means winged fruit and refers to the condition of the pods produced by trees of the genus. [...] Flowering and fruiting: The flowers appear in two or three separate flushes early in the rainy season about May to July and the pods ripen in the cold season about January and February (Troup). [...] He mentions that the only two specimens in the Trivandrum Museum in his time were shot in the low country and that he never came across it in the hills. [...] Curiously enough the case of its favourite host Turdoides Mr nail (Hume f'soll.t: feathers being moulted in the plumage lotto this reminds one of W. I In the Travancore-Cohin area the Hawk-cuckoo is a woollen generally distributed and obstreperous species in the low country and through the foothills up to an elevation of about 1 000 ft. [...] The Travancore Survey only came across this cuckoo in the low country about (lope Comorin and Aramboli in the extreme south of the State where it was fairly common.
agriculture environment
Pages
228
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120062
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-ii H.M. Mcgusty, S.H. Prater, C. Mccann view
Frontmatter
i-iii H.M. Mcgusty, S.H. Prater, C. Mccann view
Some Beautiful Indian Trees
1-iii E. Blatter, W.S. Millard view
The Ornithology Of Travancore and Cochin
3-35 Sálim Ali view
The Foxes of British India
36-57 R.I. Pocosk view
The Snakes of Deolali
58-iii A.G.L. Fraser view
The Birds of Bombay and Salsette
83-103 Sálim Ali, Humayun Abdulali view
Shooting Notes for the Central Provinces
104-115 J.E. Hali view
Notes on Some Indian Birds
116-124 E.H.N. Lowther view
The Nesting of the Indian Crested Swift (Hemiprocne Coronata) in Upper Burma
125-126 J.K. Stanford, H.C. Smith view
The Medicinal and Poisonous Aroids of India
127-141 J.F. Caius view
Observations of Some Peculiar Habits of the Spider (Marpissa Melanognathus)
142-ii Gopal Bhattacharya view
An Undescribed Tingitid from South India
145-145 Carl Drake view
Notes on Coccidæ (Homop'tera Rhynchota) from South India.1
146-i T.V. Ayyar view
A Preliminary Survey of the Algal Flora of Hyderabad (Deccan)
149-i M. Ghousuddin view
Review
151-151 J. F. C. view
Herbert Musgrave Phipson
152-154 H.M. Mcgusty, S.H. Prater, C. Mccann view
Miscellaneous Notes
155-198 H.M. Mcgusty, S.H. Prater, C. Mccann view

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