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get millet, not mixed with other grain ; the others get a mix- 

 ture of seven kinds of grain — viz. rice, dot a nukhud (grain), 

 mung dal, millet, karar, lahdarah, juivar. Though most servants 

 of His Majesty keep Pigeons and show much skill in training 

 them, there are a few that have risen to eminence, as Qui 'Ali of 

 Bukhara, Masti of Sarmaqnnd, Mulhizadah, Puri Mulla Ahmad 

 Chand, Muqbil Khan Chelah, Khwajah Candal Chelah, Mumin of 

 Harat, 'Abdullatif of Bukhara, Haji Qasim of Balkh, Habib of 

 Shahrsabz, Sikandar Chelah, Maltu, Maqcud of Sarmaqand, 

 Khwajah P'hul, Chelah Hiranand. 



The servants attached to the Pigeon-houses draw their pay 

 on the list of the army. The pay of a foot-soldier varies from 

 two rupees to forty-eight rupees a month." 



Here ends Abul Fazl's chapter in the Am i Akbari. In our 

 next number we will give the commentary by Alla-oodeen, in 

 which that writer points out, amongst other things, the particular 

 respects in which the Indian method of training Pigeons differs 

 from the Persian. 



ADDITIONS TO THE LIST OF SOMERSETSHIRE BIRDS. 



By Cecil Smith. 



In the review of the Kev. A. C. Smith's ' Birds of Wiltshire ' 

 (p. 119) the reviewer compares the total number of species in 

 that county with the total number in the adjoining county of 

 Somerset, making the total number of Wiltshire birds " 235 or 

 about 20 more than the adjoining county of Somerset, washed 

 by the waters of the Severn and the Bristol Channel." As this 

 agrees very closely with the numbers in my ' Birds of Somerset,' 

 216 and one (Siimia funerea) in an Appendix, altogether 217, I 

 suppose the reviewer has taken the numbers from my book. He 

 should remember, however, that this was published in 1809, 

 nearly 20 years ago, whilst the ' Birds of Wiltshire ' is written up 

 to date. Of course since then a good many species have been 

 added to the Somerset list, and as most of these have been 

 recorded in ' The Zoologist,' the reviewer might have ascertained 

 and stated the additions. That the whole northern boundary of 

 Somersetshire is washed by the Bristol Channel is perfectly true, 

 but unless we use the old archaeological name of the " Severn 



