Note {209} — ROMMANI GUDLI; OR, GIPSY STORIES AND FABLES.
Reading edition
The peacock and turkey are called lady-birds in Rommany, because, as a Gipsy told me, “they spread out their clothes, and hold up their heads and look fine, and walk proud, like great ladies.” I have heard a swan called a pauno rāni chillico—a white lady-bird.