Note 104 — The Fifteenth New Year’s Feast after the Auspicious Accession

I am not sure what bird this is. G͟haug͟hāʾī means a turtle dove in Bengal, but I doubt if this be the bird meant by Jahāngīr. G͟haug͟hāʾī would mean a noisy bird, and perhaps is the Bengal Babbler of Jerdon, or the Sāt Bhāʾī (seven brothers) of the Indians. It belongs to the Malacocircus genus, and Jerdon, I. 340, states that the pied-crested cuckoo generally lays her egg in the nest of the Malacocirci. The babbling thrushes occur in Kashmir. In Blochmann, 296, there is an account of how g͟haug͟hāʾīs are caught. ↑