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Black(-blue) Baza subspecies (1 Viewer)

Björn Bergenholtz

Björn Bergenholtz

(former alias "Calalp")
Sweden
Quick one, minor, tiny detail on ...

• the Baza subspecies Aviceda leuphotes syama HODGSON 1836 (December), here

Today's HBW Alive Key explains it as:
syama
Hindi syama black-blue, dark-coloured (subsp. Aviceda leuphotes).
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Not wrong but Hodgson 1837 (May) clearly refer to Sanskrit (not Hindi), see foot-note, here:
*Syama, in Sanskrit, means black-blue.
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Spoken Hindi vs written Sanskrit ... picky? Yes, but like the say in Thailand: "Same, same, but different".

Cheers!

Björn
 
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