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 Sultan’s Horse, Deadly (The).Summa Diligentia. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Sulta’na.
 
A beautiful bird, allied to the moorhen, with blue feathers, showing beautiful metallic gloss, generally with red beak and legs.   1
       
“Some purple-winged sultana.”
       
Moore: Paradise and the Peri.
 


 Sultan’s Horse, Deadly (The).Summa Diligentia. 

 
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