iSo GANGETIC HINDOOSTAN. 



alfo delighted with honey, fugar, and other Aveets. Its motions 

 are not, as in others of this genus, flow and languid, but mode- 

 rately lively; and it appears to have an habit of turning itfelf 

 round and round every now and then, as if for amufem.ent, in 

 the manner of a dog when lying down to fleep. It is faid to 

 have a propenfity to burrowing under ground, and that it was 

 at firft dug out of its retreat by thofe who difcovcred it. 



Bats. The fpecies of Bats are probably numerous on the great 



peninfula; thofe of C^j'/o^ are noted at p. 202 of the preceding 

 volume. The great bats extend to all the hot parts, will fiy 

 ^ into the very bed chan:ibers, and entangle their claws fo ftrongly 



into the hair of the ileepers, as not to be difengaged without 

 pain and difficulty. 



*, The birds of Benzal itfelf are fo numerous, that I am dif- 



couraged from the enumeration. Lady Impefs colled:ion alone 

 ■furnifhed me with more than I dare attempt to defcribe. I muft 

 therefore fele6t only the moft elegant, and the moft curious, 

 intermixing from other colle6lions thofe which ftrike my fancy. 



"Falcon«. To the late 'Taylor White^ Efq; I was indebted for the great 



Indian Falcon, brov.n, with broad black bands on the wings. 

 Latham, i. tab. iii. To Mr. G. Edwards, 108, we are obliged 

 for the elegant black and orange hawk, not feven inches long, 

 yet trained for falconry. Abidfazel mentions that Akbar ufed 

 the Mool'cheen, a little green bird no bigger than a fparrow, 

 that could bring down a crane. Among others I find the Eu- 

 ropean gofhawk, Br. Zool. i. N° 52, and my blue variety of the 

 peregrine falcon. The Cbeela, Latham, vii. 33, is a large fpecies 

 found in Lidia. The Criard is about the fize of a wood pigeon ; 



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