A History of Indian Medical Literature v2.c29.266

v2.c29.266

608 Absent from Su.Sū.46, A.H. and A.S. P. Rāy and H.N. Gupta (1965): *Phaethon rubricauda*, the tropic bird. P.V. Sharma: tropic bird. Gulabkunverba: idem. R.K. Sharma and Bhagwan Dash: frigate bird. See on *Phaethon rubricauda rubricauda* Boddaert, the redtailed tropic-bird, and other species of tropic-bird: S. Ali and S.D. Ripley 1, 22–25. See on species of *Fregata*, the frigate birds, occasionally found as vagrants in India: S. Ali and S.D. Ripley 1, 46–49. K.N. Dave (1985: 377) claims that tropic-birds are rare along the Indian coasts and have no specific Sanskrit name; the same author (1985: 378) says that the frigatebird has no specific name in Sanskrit and would go by the general name of samudrakāka.