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coolung, kulang India.|ˈkuːlʌŋ, ˈkuːlæŋ|
Also 7 colum, 9 coolan, -en, cullum, kolong, kulan, kullum, kullung.
[Hind. kulang, a. Pers. kulank.]
The great grey crane, Grus grus lilfordi; also, the demoiselle crane, Anthropoides virgo.
1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 111 A Colum may be hunted with a Greyhound, as we do Bustards, being a great Fowl and long in Rising. 1813J. Forbes Oriental Mem. II. 29 Two stately birds, called the sahras and cullum. 1838R. M. Martin Eastern India III. 579 Large flocks of a crane called Kolong..frequent this district in winter. 1883E. H. Aitken Tribes on my Frontier 160 Not being so green as I was, I let the tempting herd of antelopes pass, but the kullum I cannot resist. 1887[see dhandh]. 1901‘Linesman’ Words of Eyewitness (1902) 303 A trio of coolan flapped over his roof. 1910Blackw. Mag. Feb. 285/2 The kulan, too, or demoiselle cranes, are lovely birds..and are found in great numbers all up the river Jumna. 1915F. Finn Indian Sporting Birds 125 The native name Kullung is generally used also by Europeans. 1949N. B. Kinnear Whistler's Pop. Handbk. Indian Birds (ed. 4) 444 The Common Crane and the Demoiselle Crane are not usually distinguished from each other in India and are well known collectively under the names of Kunj and Kulung. |