Sadiya is famous for a flower named sotful (the word means "blessing" or a "desert flower"), which is much like Jasmine.
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He was awarded the Gill memorial medal in 1887 and made a fellow of The Royal Geographical Society in 1889.
The species name was after Noel Williamson, a political officer at Sadiya who was murdered in 1911.
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Ragh Neog became the Borbarua, a kanri paik became the Borphukan and two common Ahoms became the Gohains at Sadiya and Marangi.
The population in northeastern India (Sadiya to Tirap and the Naga Hills) was named as sordida (originally Sturnus contra sordidus) by Sidney Dillon Ripley in 1950.