Gracula

Please, I want Gracula, and the Soup Dragon, and other fine creations.

Goodbye, Oliver Postgate Heather McDougal 2008

– Mainâ: the Gracula religiosa, a talking bird, much valued, and held sacred.

Tales of the Punjab 1894

-- _Mainâ_: the _Gracula religiosa_, a talking bird, much valued, and held sacred.

Tales of the Punjab Flora Annie Steel 1888

We find two species of Eupetes, a curious Malayan genus allied to the forked-tail water-chats; two of Alcippe, an Indian and Malay wren-like form; an Arachnothera, quite resembling the spider-catching honeysuckers of Malacca; two species of Gracula, the Mynahs of India; and a curious little black Prionochilus, a saw-billed fruit pecker, undoubtedly allied to the Malayan form, although perhaps a distinct genus.

The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

The next day they were more successful, and I was delighted to see them return with a Bird of Paradise in full plumage, a pair of the fine Papuan lories (Lorius domicella), four other lories and parroquets, a grackle (Gracula dumonti), a king-hunter (Dacelo gaudichaudi), a racquet-tailed kingfisher (Tanysiptera galatea), and two or three other birds of less beauty.

The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

The _Mainá_ or Gracula religiosa, a favourite cage-bird, easily taught to talk.

Ramayana. English Valmiki 1866

***** Gracula quiscula, the purple jackdaw of the sea coast.

Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians. 1823

Page 289 [sic] * Gracula purpurea, the lesser purple jackdaw, or crow blackbird.

Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians. 1823

Perroquet 17.383 Corvus cristatus Pica glandaria, cærulea, cristata 1.15 Blue jay 5.164 Oriolus Baltimore Icterus ex aureo nigroque varius 1.48 Baltimore bird 5.318 Oriolus spurius Icterus minor 1.49 Bastard Baltimore 5.321 Gracula quiscula Monedula purpurea 1.12 Purple jackdaw.

Notes on the State of Virginia 1781

a grackle (Gracula dumonti), a king-hunter (Dacelo gaudichaudi), a racquet-tailed kingfisher (Tanysiptera galatea), and two or three other birds of less beauty.

The Malay Archipelago 2004