LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. 
The Game Birds of Khorda, Orissa. 
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Common Names. 
Scientifie Names. 
Pea Fowl 
Red Jungle Fowl ... 
Red Spur Fowl _... 
Painted Spur Fowl 
Grey Partridge... 
Common Quail he 
Rain * 
Bush ” 
Button A, 
Indian Bustard Quail 
Common Snipe tee 
Pintail Snipe 
Painted Snipe “ 
Grey Duck ae 
Comb Duck “7 
Pink-headed Duck... 
Whistling Teal 
Larger Whistling Teal 
Cotton Teal eos 
Greylag Goose 
Barred-headed Gonse 
Ruddy Sheldrake ... 
The Shoveller 
The Gadwall 
Pintail 
Common Teal 
Garganey te 
Pochard 
Red-crested Pochard 
White-eyed Pochard 
Demoiselle Crane ... 
Black-tailed Godwit 
Jack Snipe 
Pavo cristatus 
Gallus ferrugineus.., 
Galloperdix spadiceus 
Do. lunulatus 
Ortygornis pondice- 
rianus, 
Coturnix communis 
Do. coromandelica 
Perdicula asiatica .. 
Turnix joudera 
Do. taigoor .. 
Gallinago ccelestis... 
Do. sthenura 
Rhyncheea capensis 
Anas pecilorhyncha 
Sarcidiornis mela- 
nonotus. 
Rhodonessa caryo- 
phyllacea. 
Dendrocygna java- 
nica. 
Dendrocygna fulva 
Nettopus coroman- 
delianus, 
Anser cinereus “5 
Do. indicus 
Casarca rutila 
Spatula clypeata 
Chaulelasmus — stre- 
perus. 
Dafila acuta 
Querquedula crecca 
Do. circia 
Fuligula ferina 
Do, rufina 
Do. nyroca 
Anthropoides virgo 
Limosa gocephala 
Gallinago gallinula 
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Uriya Names. 
“ Manir,” male called 
6 Nanja.” 
as Kukra,” male called 
“ Ganja.” 
as a 
“ Hutia Gundri” .. 
“ Gundri” 
0. te 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
‘*Chaha charai” 
Do. : 
Do. a 
‘ Bhera” ‘ 
“ Naki hansa”’ a 
“ Hansrali’”’ te 
Do. ics 
“ Dandana” dae 
“ Raj hansa’” aK 
“Raj” or ‘ Raj han- 
sa ”? 
“ Kesar pandia” 
* Panda hansa.’’ 
* Gendu” 
Hansa” 
or 
“ Nanda” & a 
‘ Gendu” 
* Garara’ vas 
“Chaha charai” ... 
Do. : 
REMARKs. 
Breed 
Khorda. 
Do, 
in 
Do. 
Do, 
Migratory. 
Breed in 
Khorda, 
Migratory. 
Do, 
Breed 
Khorda, 
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in 
Do. 
Do. 
Migratory. 
Do, 
Nearly all the smaller Ducks and Teal are known here only by the generic name cf 
“Gendu,” and every wader not so large as a paddy bird by the name of ‘* Chaha,” 
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