"Bottle Brush" is close to the Weeping Willows which interfered with my
Punting(kind of push barging) along Cambridge University's Cam (river) which
was/is about 20' wide and 5' deep-- but to some- a Romantic name and Tourist
attraction in England.
mm> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected]> Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008
19:13:06 +0530> Subject: Re: [Assam] AT Photo- A Quiz: Chutiya Xalika> > >
Flowers of "Bottle Brush"- a decorative bush introduced into Assam Around
1950-- not from Indian Subcontinent.We have a big "Bottle Brush" bush at the
entrance to our ancestral home at Namti. I remember bringing that
sapling+Mahogany ones from a Banamahotsav at Sivsagar in 1980> mm> Date: Tue, 1
Apr 2008 05:41:26 -0700> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Assam] AT Photo- A Quiz: Chutiya Xalika> > Looks like the bird's
genus and name are now known. I am not too sure if the flower has been
identified quite definitely yet. I do remember seeing flowers like in the photo
that we used to call Modar. Aren't there different varieties of Modar?> Dilip>
==========================================================> > Chan Mahanta
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Thanks Bikash for reminding us of the Sutiya
Xaalika name. Back at > Namti we called it that as well--completely forgot
about it.> > > > > > > > > > > At 3:15 AM +0100 3/30/08, DR BIKASH KUMAR DAS
wrote:> >Haaa... Dada This is known in Darrang and Kamrup as CHUTIYA SHALIKA >
>/XALIKA ( Chutiya Shalka).They are the direct version of original > >Indian
Mynah all because they call talk like you and me. I had one > >before leaving
for Military.She used to talk and if I run will fly > >behind me and sit on my
shoulders... now when I saw this- I only > >tear for her..She was with us for
long and will sit in front of us > >always like a part of family and look at
us.Here also I tried to > >keep one, but died due to some food poison.Its too
painful to miss > >them.So no more birds to sit on my shoulders..> > This bird
is very humanly and available in Bangalore also.But > >here people are not like
we Axomiya !! Forget about bird, they dnt > >know the next home.> > Hope al
doubt is clear now-> > Bikash> >> >Chan Mahanta wrote:excellent Chitta! And >
>thanks for sharing the autherntic Oxomiya> >name, Kath Xaalika.Incidentally
the widespread , lowly Xaalika Sorai > >is a Mynah too. It is called Common
Indian Mynah.> >> >> >> > > >---------------------------------> > Why delete
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