[Assam] AT Photo- A Quiz: Chutiya Xalika

[mc mahant]

"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: mikemahant at hotmail.com> To: assam at assamnet.org> 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: dilipdeka at yahoo.com> To: assam at assamnet.org> 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 <cmahanta at charter.net> 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 messages? Unlimited storage is just a click away.> >_______________________________________________> >assam mailing list> >assam at assamnet.org> >http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org> > > _______________________________________________> assam mailing list> assam at assamnet.org> http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org> > _______________________________________________> assam mailing list> assam at assamnet.org> http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org> _________________________________________________________________> Education: Are exams worrying you all the day long? Write to MSN education experts for help.> http://education.in.msn.com/> _______________________________________________> assam mailing list> assam at assamnet.org> http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
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