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Bristled
Grassbird
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Chaetornis
striata
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10 February
2009
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Species (monotypic); i.e. no subspecies/races
Chaetornis striata; Jerdon, 1841 |
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Sultanpur Bird Sanctuary,
Haryana, India, 5 August 2007.
Male in full song |
Sultanpur Bird Sanctuary,
Haryana, India, 5 August 2007. Female |
Historical
The Grass-Babbler is not uncommon about Deesa in the rains at which season it breeds. I found a nest containing four eggs on the 18th August 1876. When the hen bird flew off I mistook her for Chatarrhoea caudata (Common Babbler, Turdoides caudata - ED). On looking, however, into the bush I saw at once by the eggs that it was a species new to me. This bird has a peculiar habit in the breeding season of rising suddenly into the air and soaring about, often for a considerable distance, uttering a loud note resembling the words "chirrup, chirrup -chirrup," repeated all the time the bird is in the air and then suddenly descending slowly into the grass with outspread wings much in the style of Mirafra erythtroptera. These birds are so similar in appearance when flying and hopping about in the long grass to C. caudata that I have no doubt they are often mistaken for that species. I have invariably found them during the rains in grass Bheerhs over-grown with low thorny bushes (Zizyphus jujuba, &c.) Whether they remain the whole year round I cannot say; at all events if they do their close resemblance to C. caudata enables them to escape notice at other seasons. . |
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