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" Proviuces, and Bombay, both containing some most instructive 

 " details on the habits of the birds mentioned." 



" Captain (now Lieutenant- Colonel) Tytler has given in the 

 " Annals of Natural History, two highly interesting articles on the 

 " Paunas of Barrack pore and Dacca. Kelaart and Layard have 

 " written extensively on the Ornithology of Ceylon. Hutton has, 

 " in various papers, given some interesting notes on the habits of 

 " several birds, and their nidification ; and Tickell (Journ. As. Soc, 

 " 1848), and Theobald (J. A. S. 1854), have also contributed to our 

 " knowledge of the Ornithology of India. The notes of the Eev. 

 " Mr. Phillips, on the habits of some of the birds of the N. W. 

 " Provinces (P. Z. S. 1857), and Pearson's notes on the Birds of 

 *' Bengal (J. A. S.) also deserve notice." 



To supplement this we may add that the weU-known work of 

 Sir J. Emerson Teunent, on " Ceylon," contains a well written sum- 

 mary of the Ornithology, as of the other branches of Natural His- 

 tory of this Island, to which such of our readers as have occasion to 

 require information on this subject would do well to refer. 



Two more important works relating to the Ornithology of India 

 remain to be noticed, before we terminate our remarks on this sub- 

 ject. The first of these is the " Catalogue of the Birds in the 

 Museum of the Hon. East India Company, by Thomas Horsfield, 

 and Erederick Moore," two parts of which have been issued ; the 

 first in 1854, the second in 1858. This work, unfortunately, remains 

 and probably will remain, incomplete, owing to the removal of the 

 old Museum from Leadenhall Street to Eife House, and the dissolu- 

 tion of the Company, to which it formerly belonged ; but the two 

 volumes already published, for which, we believe. Science is mainly 

 indebted to the exertions of Mr. E. Moore, are of great value, and 

 contain the whole of the Eapacious, and Insessorial groups. The 

 East India Museum has been made the resting place of the speci- 

 mens and drawings of a long series of Indian Naturalists and Col- 

 lectors, from the beginning of the present century. In the List of 

 these we find the names of Hamilton, Eaffles, Dr. Horsfield himself, 

 Colonel Sykes, M'Clelland, Ealconer, G-riffith, Strachey and Cantor, 

 all of whom have made large contributions to the Ornithological 

 branch of the East India House Museum. A well drawn up cata- 

 logue of the collections amassed from these and other sources, con- 

 taining so many types of descriptions and authenticated specimens, 

 could not fiiil to be an important work. And the present catalogue 



