[1] Birds of India.
[2] Manual of the North Arcot district.
[3] Twelfth Tour of Lord Connemara, 1890.
[4] See Thurston. Monograph on the Cotton Industry of the Madras Presidency, 1897.
[5] East and West, VI, 70, 1907.
[6] Madras Mail, 1904.
[7] Manual of the Chingleput district.
[8] Manual of the South Canara district.
[9] Ind. Ant., IV, 1875.