[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.