310 Capt. Beavau on various Indian Birds. 



species. There are Uria grylle, U. troile, Mormon fratercula, 

 and the "Saatgans^' {Anser segetum), which, without much 

 fear of error, may be regarded as identical with those num- 

 bered 17, 18, 20, and 24 of the present paper. The species 

 unquestionably mentioned by both observers in common are 

 twelve -.—^os. 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 19, 23, 26, 27, and 28 of 

 our contributor's list, while to hiui alone we are indebted for the 

 recorded fact of the appearance of ten — his Nos. 1 or 2, 5, 6, 7, 

 13, 14, 15, 21, 22, and 25.— Ed.] 



XXII, — Additional Notes on various Indian Birds. 

 By R. C. Beavan, Bengal Staff Corps, C.M.Z.S. 

 [Concluded from 'The Itis' for 1869, p. 426.] 

 254. Upupa epops. European Hoopoe. 

 The Hoopoe has evidently the power of smelling grubs and 

 worms that lie an inch or two below the surface of the ground. 

 It is an interesting sight to watch one feeding. His bill appears 

 to quarter every iuch of the soil ; and when a grub is discovered, 

 down it goes deep into the ground, seizes the grub, which is 

 then thrown into the air (Horn bill-like), caught, and swallowed. 

 I noticed a species of Hoopoe which was probably U. longi- 

 rostris, Jerdon (B. Ind. i. p. 393), in Burniah, in August, 1865, 

 on the banks of the river Salween, in the Tennaserim provinces, 

 but had no opportunity of securing the specimen in question. 



256. Lanius lahtoka. Indian Grey Shrike. 



This species is particularly abundant about Umballah, where 

 I procured several fine examples about the station in October 

 1866. I subjoin the dimensions, taken from two specimens in 

 the flesh, the first in April, the second on the 23rd of October. 



Bill from Bill from Spread tj^ (. ^ 

 ''-■--'■ gape. foot. 



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Whilst on the subject of Grey Shrikes I may mention here that 

 in the English channel, off the coast of Cornwall, a specimen of 

 the Grey Shrike, L. excubitor of Europe, came on board the ship 



