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M. adds : R. Johanan said.

"Coast-towns" corresponds very much with our phrase "foreign parts."

The word is a transcription of χρῶμα "colour," which is used in Hebrew and Aramaic in the sense of "a precious stone of reddish hue"; Krauss, p. 296. Lewysohn, Zoologie det Talmuds, p. 183, identifies the bird with the "bird of Paradise," and compares the Spanish name for it, pajaro del sol.