EASTERN HINDOOSTAN. 



amufement of falconry, which is minutely defcribed in the 

 ift volume, p. 306, of the Ayeen. 



Of owls, here is a new and large fpecies, which may be Owls. 

 called the ' double ear'd,' with two pair of long tufts of fea- 

 thers ; wings and back grey, fpotted ; breaft, pale grey. 



The Coromandely a fmall fpecies, defcribed by M. Sonnerat, 

 ii. p. 186; we may add the great horned fpecies of Ceylon. 

 Brown's Illujlr. p. 8. tab. iv. and the beautiful EngliJJj v,'h.\\.Q owl, 

 Br. ZooL i. N° 67, which extend to thefe tropical regions. 



M. Sonnerat, let me obferve, had formed an immenfe collec- of m. Sonke- 

 tion of the fubje^Sls of natural hiftory, during his great travels ^^^' 

 in India, which extended even to New Guinea \ unfortunately 

 they were all brought into Pondicherry to be fhipped for Eu- 

 rope, when the city was taken, and the whole treafure of this 

 indefatigable naturalift left to perifh. On January the ift, 1779, 

 the Deux Amis, a fmall French Indiaman, was wrecked near my 

 houfe. Among other letters found in it was one from M. Son- 

 nerat, containing a fum total of all the plants, animals, birds, 

 Sec. which he had collefted, and full of exultation in his good 

 fortune. I lent it to a friend, Vviio took it into his head to for- 

 ward it by pofk to he Jardin de Roy, as an infult on the French 

 nation, and fo deprived me of what I fhould have efteemed an 

 interefting piece of hii^ory. 



The Malabar Shrike, Latham, vii. p. 56. tab. cviii, deferves Uhi.h-B.hK 

 notice, on account of the fingular feathers in its tail. From the Shrik.e. 

 end of the exterior of each fide feather, the (haft is continued 

 naked near fix inches, and the end dilated into an oval web ; 

 the head is furuifiied with an elegant creft, with tips inclining 



backward; 



