I have only one supposed nest of this species, brought me from dacca by a native collector who worked there for me under Mr. F.B. Simson.
"The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1"
Allan O. Hume
The dacca muslin manufacture, which once employed thousands of hands, is quite at an end, so that it was with great difficulty that the specimens of these fabrics sent to the Great Exhibition of 1851, were procured.
"Himalayan Journals V2."
J. D. Hooker
I made the elevation of dacca by barometer only seventy-two feet above the sea; and the banks of the Dallisary being high, the level of its waters at this season is scarcely above that of the Bay of Bengal.
"Himalayan Journals V2."
J. D. Hooker