V. Santharam - MCC Campus, Tambaram Tambaram East Tambaram Tamil Nadu

See details in my paper:
Santharam, V. 2001. Changes in the bird fauna of a scrub-jungle following fragmentation and habitat alterations. Blackbuck. 15(4): 83–93.
Interestingly, the earlier work (see below):
Barnes, A. M. 1939. Birds observed in and near Tambaram, South India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. XLI(4): 744–747
Barnes, Alice M. 1938. Birds observed in and near Tambaram, Chingleput District, South India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. XL(3): 467–476
cites them as being very common in the 1930's.