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Mabuya multifasciata

Hi, I shot a good picture of one in Thailand this week. Since I am not an enwiki-user, you might insert it in the English article if you please. I also have ecven higher-resolution pictures of it, if you want.

It is Image:Mabuya Multifasciata.jpg at Wikipedia Commons: [1]

best regards [2]

83.109.111.211 (talk) 12:48, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. Have added the image, it does not actually require a login to add the image. Shyamal (talk) 17:00, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Why India?

Hallo Shyamal! First, I want to express my sincere admiration as to your many contributions to the Wikipedian butterfly articles! You have done a great work indeed!

But do you have a special reason for adding the List of butterflies of India article to the see also section (while the species, genus or even family is not endemic or otherwise mostly Indian)? It just leaves a false impression to the reader that the subject of the article would be somehow more associated with India, rather than Great Britain, China, or say, Poland? Kaarel (talk) 23:45, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

I agree fully with your view. Please feel free to remove it ! Shyamal (talk) 02:56, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Cattle Egret

The article is shaping up nicely. Do you have any info on the breeding season of the species in India/South Asia? I'm imagining its tied into the wet/dry season. I'm looking for breeding info on the African/SA populations. Sabine's Sunbird talk 04:07, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Will add soon. Good luck for your "thesis defence" or whatever it is ! Shyamal (talk) 04:08, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Deriving your work

Hi Shyamal. I've translated the most part of your Image:BirdBeaksA.svg at Image:BirdBeaksATamil.svg. For some reason, it's not displaying the Tamil text in the commons page for the image, but displaying it when used in another page. Could it be because of some hardcoding of fonts that I did in inkscape? Can you please have a look as this is my first work with inkscape? -- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 12:38, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi Sundar, When I open it in Inkscape, I see no text (except some remaining English). What I remember doing for this is copy Unicode Tamil and paste it. Give me a moment, let me try this out. Shyamal (talk) 12:56, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

PS. So it worked after I used the Latha font. Shyamal (talk) 13:51, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for all your help. I've created a landscape version at Image:BirdBeaksATamilLandscape.svg. -- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 06:19, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Looks nicer but the only trouble with having it this way is that when you put it as a thumb in the article, the text gets compressed below the threshold of readability. Of course fixing the thumb width improves it but then the idea of user settable thumb size is broken. Shyamal (talk) 06:32, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

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Enjoy! Especially the Membracidae http://www.philippeblanchot.com/photos/portraitsinsectes/index.htm Robert

Shyamal I added images of the two Sumalia spp. today and Appias panda male and female but didn't get to look at uor cicadas which I don't know much about. Very late now Need some sleep RobertNotafly (talk) 20:47, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Chough dilemmas

Is it worth replacing the "in flight" image with your ChoughSilhouette.svg? I can't decide whether a good drawing is better than a relatively poor image of a real bird?

For some reason, the calls site wouldn't let me register, so can't download anyway. I'm still confused by the licence, not sure whether to risk it at this stage of an FAC. What do you think? Jimfbleak (talk) 16:34, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

I downloaded the chough call file - it is in FLAC format and I have been looking at converting it to ogg. From what I understand of the license - it provides all the freedoms required to relicense under cc-by-sa-3.0, I will try and re-upload with credit to the author as given on the licensing page. But maybe we should reconfirm on the village pump. Regarding the sketch, I leave it to your discretion. I often tend to prefer simple illustrations to photographs due to higher "data-ink ratio" (see Edward Tufte for that idea). Will look over again tomorrow. Shyamal (talk) 16:54, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Andaman Crow

Shyamal Andaman Crow (Euploea) not on your List of Indian butterflies RobertNotafly (talk) 19:26, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Just added it. Shyamal (talk) 01:51, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Jacky Winter

Hi Shyamal, have just noticed an error on [[3]] I'm fairly certain that the images are of Grey Shrike-thrush (Colluricincla harmonica) but I'm not sure of the protocol to replace them with correct images.Aviceda talk 09:58, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Southern Ground-hornbill move

Thanks Shyamal - that was quick! Cheers. Maias (talk) 04:33, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

SS nom

Many thanks, I've voted - not a difficult decision Jimfbleak (talk) 06:50, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Sabine's Sunbirds RFA

Thanks for pointing it out! MeegsC | Talk 08:04, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Chough dilemmas

Going back to your flight images, this would be most useful combined with a similar pic for Alpine, showing the differing silhouettes. However, that obviously makes much more work for you, so absolutely don't do it unless you feel the urge. Jimfbleak (talk) 09:59, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Will do, do you know of any good silhouettes of the Alpine? Shyamal (talk) 10:19, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Alpine looks spot-on to me. If anything, Red-billed looks a little long- (or narrow-?) winged. Flight silhouettes vary quite a bit from book to book, and in at least one Red-billed looks almost identical in shape to Common Buzzard. Thanks for the impressively rapid response. Birds on ground look good too, although I don't think I've seen Alpine other than in flight. Jimfbleak (talk) 15:31, 8 April 2008 (UTC

Looks really good, I'm sure you are right, my sources obviously tend to show nominate or mainland European ssp. Boca del Infierno brought back memories, we went to Spain for four days about 10 years ago - whale watching from the ferry, two days in Aragon including that Wallcreeper, and two day in Rioja, testing the wonderful local wines after the day's birding. Thanks again - will you put the image in, after all, you've done all the work?. A straight swap for the upper flight picture I assume is the best location?

:) Added the img. The caption seems to be a bit longish. Feel free to edit it. Shyamal (talk) 01:27, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Looks good, I've trimmed the "obvious" bits from the caption (they are mentioned in the text anyway) so that in my browser at least it doesn't overrun the section, thanks Jimfbleak (talk) 06:29, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

FA

Special thanks for helping to get this through - your image clearly tipped the balance, FA within hours of its addition! Jimfbleak (talk) 06:59, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

I doubt very much if that was the cause. It was comprehensive and sufficiently well written to deserve it. Shyamal (talk) 07:04, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Thankyou

Hello Shyamal Many thanks for cleaning the images.More soon I hope but today I have acccess to real butterflies at last.No e-mail here and I don't know about the studio yet but I should get a few pics.Lycaenidae perhaps.Best wishes Robert

Thank you for the pictures ! Shyamal (talk) 11:20, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

re: Scientific names

Hi Shyamal, sorry, I didn't get what you meant by "in Roman". Did you mean that the Tamil Wiki article should have its title in Roman? Or did you mean the title should be its common name and not the scientific name? By the way, form this page, it appears that the Multibanded Krait is "kattu viriyan" in Tamil, do you have any idea? -- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 03:26, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Comstock-Needham image

Hey, did you add the svg with veins on [4] ? Then please note that RS should be placed one vein more anteriorly and that were it says RS now it should be M.