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631 Cf. Ca.Sū.27.50. P. Rāy et al. (1980): Alectoris graeca chukar, the chukar. See on Alectoris chukar (J.E. Gray): S. Ali and S.D. Ripley 2, 17–20. 632 Cf. Ca.Sū.27.41. P. Rāy et al. (1980): Ardea cinerea, a heron. Compare kaṅka. 633 Cf. Ca.Sū.27.41. P. Rāy et al. (1980): Anthropoides virgo, the demoiselle crane (usually thought to be the krauñca). 634 Cf. Ca.Sū.27.43 (puṇḍarīkākṣa). P. Rāy et al. (1980): a white-eyed duck. K.N. Dave (1985: 370): the pelican. 635 Cf. Ca.Sū.27.41. P. Rāy et al. (1980): Pelicanus onocrotalus, the pelican. 636 Cf. Ca.Sū.27.42 (śarāri). P. Rāy et al. (1980): Anhinga melanogaster, the darter or snakebird. Compare Caraka's mṛṇālakaṇṭhaka. 637 Cf. Ca.Sū.27.43 (nandīmukhī). P. Rāy et al. (1980): Phoenicopterus roseus, the flamingo. 638 Cf. Ca.Sū.27.42. P. Rāy et al. (1980): Phalacrocorax niger, the small cormorant. 639 Cf. Ca.Sū.27.43. P. Rāy et al. (1980): Ichtyophaga, a fishing eagle. See on Ichthyophaga ichthyaetus (Horsfield), the greyheaded fishing eagle: S. Ali and S.D. Ripley 1, 292–294. 640 Absent from the Carakasaṃhitā, A.H. and A.S. Mentioned in the Bhelasaṃhitā (Sū.27.17). P. Rāy et al. (1980): Demiegretta asha, the Indian reef heron. See on Egretta gularis schistacea (Hemprich et Ehrenberg) (= Ardea asha Sykes), the Indian reef heron: S. Ali and S.D. Ripley 1, 74–76. 641 Cf. A.S.Sū.7.80 (mallikādya may be an error for mallikākṣa). Absent from the Carakasaṃhitā. Mentioned in the Bhelasaṃhitā (Sū.27.17). P. Rāy et al. (1980): Anser indicus, the bar-headed goose. See on Anser indicus (Latham), the barheaded goose, a common winter visitor in Northern India: S. Ali and S.D. Ripley 1, 131–134. 642 Absent from the Carakasaṃhitā, A.H. and A.S. P. Rāy et al. (1980): Nyroca rufa, the white-eyed pochard. See Caraka's puṇḍarīkākṣa. 643 Cf. Ca.Sū.27.42 (puṣkarāhva). P. Rāy et al. (1980): Grus grus, the common crane. Compare Caraka's baka. See on Grus grus lilfordi Sharpe, the Eastern common crane: S. Ali and S.D. Ripley 2, 136–138. K.N. Dave (1985: XIV) identifies the puṣkaraśāyikā as the whiskered tern, mentioned as puṣkaraśāda in the texts on the aśvamedha. See on Chlidonias hybridus indicus (Stephens), the Indian whiskered tern: S. Ali and S.D. Ripley 3, 39–41. 644 Absent from the Carakasaṃhitā, A.H. and A.S. Dalhaṇa gives pāṇiyavartikā as its common name. P. Rāy et al. (1980): a species of aquatic quail. K.N. Dave (1985: 275–276, 308) says that it is the water-cock and possibly also the blackbreasted Kalij pheasant. See on Gallicrex cinerea cinerea (Gmelin), the kora or watercock: S. Ali and S.D. Ripley 2, 172–174, on Lophura leucomelana lathami (J.E. Gray), the blackbreasted Kaleej pheasant: the same, 2, 99–100. 645 Cf. Ca.Sū.27.43 (ambukukkuṭī). P. Rāy et al. (1980): Gallinula chloropus, the moorhen. K.N. Dave (1985: 292) regards jalakukkuṭa (= ambukukkuṭa) as a term comprising several birds: the whitebreasted waterhen, the moorhen, the purple coot and the watercock. 646 Cf. Ca.Sū.27.43. P. Rāy et al. (1980): a kind of water-fowl. 647 Absent from the Carakasaṃhitā, A.H. and A.S. P. Rāy et al. (1980), who adopt the variant śvetacaraṇa: not identified. The Bhelasaṃhitā (Sū.27.17) mentions a bird called śvetavāraṇa. K.N. Dave (1985: 333) regards the Indian courser as the śvetacaraṇa. See on Cursorius coromandelicus (Gmelin), the Indian courser: S. Ali and S.D. Ripley 3, 9–11. 648 Cf. Ca.Sū.27.40. P. Rāy et al. (1980): Tsjanka rapa, a conch. This may be Turbinella rapa Lam. (see WIRM VI, 404.)