From "Amidavad," the learned Dr. Fryer tells us,

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come small birds, "spotted with red and white no bigger than measles," of which "fifty in a cage" make an admirable chorus. That was more than two hundred years ago. I do not know whether they still come from Ahmedabad, but the name has stuck to them and they still come, more than "fifty in a cage" sometimes, to people our aviaries. They need no description, for everybody knows them. They are