[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886) › c10.15800 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15800 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15800 - **Language:** English ### [c10.15800](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.15800) WHISTLING TEAL, s. This in Jerdon is given as \*Dendrocygna Awsuree\* of Sykes. Latin names given to birds and beasts might at least fulfil one object of Latin names, in being intelligible and pronounceable by foreign nations. We have seldom met with a more barbarous combination of impossible words than this. A numerous flock of these whistlers is sometimes seen in Bengal sitting in a tree, a curious habit for ducks. - [Previous: c10.15799](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.15799) - [Next: c10.15801](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.15801) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.15800](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.15800) · Pramāṇa