1811 W. J. Burchell Jrnl. 27 Oct. in Trav. Interior S. Afr. (1822) I. xvi. 393 We shot a large bird of the bustard kind... The present species, which is called Kori in the Sichuana language, measured, in extent of wing, not less than seven feet.

1811 W. J. Burchell Jrnl. 27 Oct. in Trav. Interior S. Afr. (1822) I. xvi. 393 A representation of the head of the Kori Bustard..is given at the end of this chapter.

a1867 C. J. Andersson Notes Birds Damara Land (1872) 258 Kori Bustard... This splendid bird is found throughout the year in Damara.

1889 H. A. Bryden Kloof & Karroo xvii. 306 Among the bustards stands pre-eminent the great Kori bustard—the gom paauw of the Dutch colonists.

1962 C. W. Mackworth-Praed & C. H. B. Grant Birds S. Third Afr. 262 Kori bustard or gom paauw: Ardeotis kori.

1966 E. Palmer Plains of Camdeboo xii. 209 The Kori bustard, a dweller of the desert or semi-desert, a gigantic creature weighing up to fifty pounds or more, heavier than the great bustard of Eurasia which is usually held to be the heaviest bird of the air. It has a wing span of up to eight feet, and it stands nearly five feet high.

1839 J. Tod Trav. W. India vii. 143 The chief fragment of this once superb monument is enclosed and half-hidden by the huts of Koli weavers.

1839 J. Tod Trav. W. India xvii. 361 The rest is made up of the agricultural and artizan classes, as Aheers, Kolis, &c. &c.

1868 Rep. Ethnol. Comm. Specimens Aborig. Tribes Jubbulpore Exhib. 1866–67 i. 11 The Mahars, Korees, and other weaving clans.

1873 Cycl. India (ed. 2) III. at Kori All the weaver caste throughout Hindoostan are stated by Colonel Tod to be Koli. They call themselves Julai, but are sometimes styled Kori.

1885 J. C. Nesfield Brief View Caste Syst. N.-W. Prov. & Oudh xi. 106 The weaver caste is better known to this day by the tribal name of Kori than by the functional names of Bunkar or Joria.

1896 J. N. Bhattacharya Hindu Castes & Sects xi. ii. 233 The Kori and Koli of Northern India are weavers professing the Hindu faith; but they are very low castes.

1896 W. Crooke Tribes & Castes N.-W. Provinces & Oudh III. 316 Kori, the Hindu weaver caste.

1896 W. Crooke Tribes & Castes N.-W. Provinces & Oudh III. 318 The Koris are all Hindus... The status of the Kori is very low.

1916 R. V. Russell Tribes & Castes Cent. Provinces India IV. ii. 133 Bodies of the Kori and Katia weaving castes of northern India have been amalgamated with the Mahārs.

1957 G. S. Ghurye Mahadev Kolis i. 6 Koris or Koiris are known over a large part of Northern India. I do not know that any responsible student of Indian ethnography has suggested an ethnic connection between Kori and Koli.