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The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)

Note 1798 — SECTION III. HINDŪSTĀN

Annette Susannah Beveridge translation

Perhaps Motacilla citreola, a yellow wag-tail which summers in Central Asia (Oates, ii, 298). If so, its Kābul name may refer to its flashing colour. Cf. E. D. Ross, l.c. No. 301; de Courteille’s Dictionary which gives qārcha, wag-tail, and Zenker’s which fixes the colour.

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