142 A. Anderson — On a new species of Kite. [July, 



I. 



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1. Lord, forgive our sins ; for we are sinners and thou art forgiving. 



2. Thou art good, but we are wicked and have committed endless crimes. 



The date of the death of Miran Sayyid Husain, the good, who has obtained pardon 

 and forgiveness, is the 5th Jumada, II, 1000. [9th March, 1592.] 



II. 



From the Mosque at Mbrnah. 



In the reign of Muhammad Shah, Padishah i Ghazi, this mosque was ordered to be 

 built by the chaste lady of the age, Bibi Jhabbu, at the cost of nine thousand rupees, 

 in the month of Qatar, 1138, [October, 1725], the eighth year of the auspicious acces- 

 sion. 



Mr. Cadell writes — " This is one of the last of the substantial Sayyid 

 buildings. Bibi Jhabbu was the wife of Nawab Hasan Khan, an Imperial 

 Bakhshi, during the reign of Muhammad Shah. Mornah is a Chatrauri 

 settlement, and tbe Mornah Sayyids with other Chatrauris came to the front 

 when the Tihanpuris lost ground." 



Tbe following papers were read — 



1. On a new species of Kite, and notes on the genus Milvus generally. — By 

 Andeew Anderson, Esq., F. Z. S., with a note by W. E. Bkooks, 

 Esq., C. E. 



(Received 5th June, 1873 ) 

 It is now nearly three years since I first recognized an undescribed 

 species of migratory kite which appears to have escaped the notice of Indian 

 Ornithologists, and the matter has been allowed to remain sub judice until 

 I could be quite certain that the bird now brought before tbe public was 

 really new to science. I have, however, alluded to it from time to time in a 

 series of papers that have been published by the Zoological Society of Lon- 

 don, (" Notes on the Raptorial birds of North Western India"), from which 



