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
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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
O' Deka:
Apuni etiyahe xui-uthil neki? Din-dupor holhi, gomei nepale.
Xui-thoka xiale haanh dhorar kthatw xunise nissoy :-).
They have been identified and rested.
The flower is of the Ximolu gos--Silk Cotton tree, Bombax indica.
Nothing even akin to 'modaar' , a wholly different genus.
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Onderwerp: 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
] Namens
mc mahant
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Onderwerp: 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
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
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
