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eggs of forty -two species, complete the illustrations. The 

 notices of species, of -Nvhich the letterpress mostly consists, 

 may be divided under two heads — descriptions and accounts 

 of those species known to Colonel Tickell, and descriptions 

 of species unknown to him and copied from other authors. 

 On these last I do not propose to observe ; but I will endea- 

 vour to give a general idea of those parts of the work which 

 are original. Want of space prevents my doing justice to all 

 the plates, or to tlie many interesting accounts of habits 

 which render the work so valuable. Indeed, if I only succeed 

 in drawing the attention of ornithologists to the work itself, 

 my principal object will have been attained. It is a sad 

 reflection that ill health prevented so much patient in- 

 dustry, so much unostentatious labour, so much artistic skill, 

 so much enthusiasm in the good cause, so great a fidelity to 

 nature, from being rewarded wdth that universal approbation 

 publication would undoubtedly have secured. 



The first two volumes embrace respectively the Raptores 

 DiuRNi and the Raptores nocturni. On forty-one plates, 

 contained in volume i., are depicted the better-known Indian 

 and Burman species of Accipitres ; but, with the exception of 

 Limnaetus kieneri and Falco peregrinator, none of the rarer 

 forms are delineated. Six species of Vultures are admirably 

 figured. Otogyps calvus is stated to occur as commonly in 

 Arracan and Biu'ma as in Central India and the Madras Pre- 

 sidency, Gyps indicus to be common in Bui-ma, and Gyps 

 bengalensis spread all over that country. 



Aquila imperialis {heliaca), ? ad. and young in its third 

 year, both from Bengal, constitute the first two plates be- 

 longing to the Eagles. An adult male oi Aquila ticevia, Gm. 

 apud Jerdon (B. lud. no. 28), from Daulan, Tenasserim, is 

 figured ; and the species is stated to be not uncommon in 

 suitable localities in that province. The next plate is entitled 

 Aquila fulvescens? and a good plate of the Hmorungee {Ni- 

 saetus fusciatus) feeding on a Black Partridge is followed by 

 one containing two figures of the Limnaetus niveus (T.), apud 

 Jerd. (B. Ind. no. 34), in plumage which Colonel Tickell cha- 

 racterizes as that of the third or fourth moult. The one is 



