APPENDIX. 



SINCE the publication of the earlier volumes of Birds in this series 

 many additions have been made to Indian ornithology. Only the more 

 important can be noticed here. 



Foremost must be placed several papers by Mr. E. C. S. Baker on the 

 Birds of North Cachar in vols. vii, viii, ix, x, and xi of the ' Journal 

 of the Bombay Natural History Society' (1891-97). These papers not 

 only add greatly to the known habits of the numerous species mentioned, 

 but they also contain full accounts of nests and eggs, belonging, in very 

 many cases, to species the nidification of which was previously unknown. 

 The same author has contributed to the 'Ibis' for 1895 and 1896, 

 " Notes on the Nidification of some (69) Indian Birds not mentioned in 

 Hume's ' Nests and Eggs.' " The late Lieut. H. E. Barnes published an 

 account, illustrated with some good plates of eggs, of " Nesting in 

 Western India" in vols. iii, iv, v, and vi of the Bombay Natural 

 History Society's { Journal ' (1888-91), but references to many of these 

 notes have already been given. In the same work (vol. vi, p. 331) are 

 Mr. J. Davidson's " Notes on Nidification in Kanara ; " and " A short Trip 

 to Kashmir " by the same author, with numerous descriptions of nests and 

 eggs, has just been published in the ' Ibis ' for January 1898. Another 

 paper that deserves notice is the " Catalogue of a Collection of Birds 

 (188 species) made by Dr. W. L. Abbott in Kashmir, Baltistan and Ladak, 

 &c.," by C. W. Richmond, published in the 'Proceedings ' of the United 

 States National Museum, xviii, pp. 451-503. An important paper on 

 Ceylon Birds, " Ornithological Notes from the Cocoawatte Estate," by 

 Mr. A. L. Butler has also appeared in the Bombay Natural History 

 Society's l Journal,' vol. x, p. 284. Lists of birds from the Ruby Mines 

 and from the Shan States in N.E. Burma have been published by 

 Mr. Oates, the author of the first two volumes of the present work (' lbis, r 

 1894, p. 478 ; Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. x, p. 108) ; and another list from 

 the Southern Shan States has been contributed by Mai or Rippon (' Ibis,' 

 1896, p. 357). 



It is impossible here to do more than refer to the large accessions to 

 OUT knowledge of the nests and eggs of Indian birds, but brief descrip- 

 tions of new or supposed new species are given below and the more 

 important additions to distribution are noted. With reference to the 

 latter Mr. Baker records several species, not previously known to inhabit 

 the Assam Range, as occurring in North Cachar (formerly known as part 

 of the Naga Hills). Of these the following are the most important : 



