Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An Anglo-Indian name for a bird of the genus Larvivora.

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Examples

  • The rufous-bellied niltava (_Niltava sundara_) or fairy blue-chat, as Jerdon calls it, is the kind of bird one would expect to find in fairyland.

    Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916

  • Of these there are no less than twenty-six species, the most remarkable being the fairy blue-chat, which is brilliantly marked with different shades of glistening blue, and another which is strikingly coloured in almost uniform verditer blue.

    The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty Francis Edward Younghusband 1902

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