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Ganges-Cheel). The Haliastur pondicerianus is commonly termed' 

 Sankar-cheel, and not unf "requently Dhobed-Cheel (from its aquatic 

 propensity, hovering over or sitting near a party of Dhobees or 

 washermen.) The Milvus ater is distinctively termed Pariah- 

 Cheel. No. 63 refers evidently to Pontaetus ichthya'etus, and this 

 with other fishing eagles is called Mdtchdl or Mdtch-Korol. 



M. SundevalPs doubtfully cited Falco buteo was, in all proba- 

 bility, Buteo rufinus (Ruppell), v. B. canescens, Hodgson : the 

 next species noticed was probably Blagrus dimidiatus (Raffles) : 

 and the third was certainly not Astur palumbarius. — I have never 

 heard Leptoptilus argala " called Eagle by the English," though 

 it rarely is Pelican ! Although the true Golden Eagle {Aquila 

 chrysaetos) inhabits the Himalaya, the so-called " Golden Eagle " 

 of the residents at the hill stations refers always to the Lammer- 

 geyer (Gypaetos). 



Vultures are called Shooknee by the Hindoos, and Gid by the 

 Musselmans. Otogyps pondicerianus is the Ldl Shooknee of the 

 former, and the Molnah Gid of the latter. Neither of them di- 

 stinguish the Gyps indicus (Scopoli and Latham, nee Temminck, 

 which is the G. tenuiceps and tenuirostris, Hodgson and G. R. 

 Gray), although this species is also common, keeping however 

 more away from crowded towns. 



Gallus ferrugineus (Gm.), No. 69, p. 87 ante. M. Sundevall 

 is quite wrong in stating that any Hindoos ever breed fowls : the 

 mere touch of one, or of an egg, is pollution even to the lowest 

 caste of them. It should also be remarked, with reference to his 

 note on the Indo-Portuguese population, that although, for the 

 most part, much darker-skinned than the generality of Bengal 

 Hindoos, excepting some of the lowest castes (in which the blood 

 of the indigenes of the country greatly preponderates), these so- 

 called Portuguese cannot justly be termed quite "as black as 

 negroes f- and to me it appears obvious that they have derived 

 their exceedingly dark complexion, not from the permanent in- 

 fluence of climate, but from intermixture and re-intermixture of 

 blood with the lowest class of natives, till little indeed of the 

 European stock remains in them. When I say permanent influ- 

 ence of climate, I mean that we must take into consideration that 

 individual tanning produced by exposure, which does not become 

 ingrained into the race, so as to be transmissible from parent to 

 offspring. The prevalent belief here is, that the colour of the 

 modern Indo-Portuguese illustrates the accumulative effect of an 

 Indian climate during a long series of generations bom in the 

 country; but it is my thorough conviction that the foregoing 

 explanation suffices. Indeed there is a current statement to the 

 effect that no instance has been hitherto known of a continuous 

 unmixed descent of any European race, born and brought up in 



