18/1.] ON THE RAPTORIAL BIRDS OF INDIA. 675 



Two specimens, 3| and 4 inches long (nos. 134 and 357), from 

 the Godeffroy Museum ; they were obtained at Port Bower and Port 

 Mackay (N.E. Australia). 



Geotria allporti. (Plate LXX.) 



Entirely black; skin with numerous transverse folds. Gular 

 pouch large. The two middle teeth of the maxillary lamina are 

 small, pointed, many times smaller than and entirely disconnected 

 from the lateral, which are of a triangular shape and finely serrated 

 on the inner margin. Mandibulary lamina very low, denticulated. 

 Suctorial teeth in numerous series, rather distant from one another, 

 unicuspid ; ouly those nearest to the mouth somewhat larger, the 

 others small. Form of the suctorial disk as in G. australis. Dis- 

 tance between the two dorsal fius less than the length of the first. 



Tasmania, from fresh water. One example, 13 inches long, has 

 been presented by Morton Allport, Esq. 



2. Notes on the Raptorial Birds of India. 

 By A. Anderson, F.Z.S. 



[Eeceived October 23, 1871.] 



I returned to India in October last, after a furlough of eighteen 

 months, and through the kindness of my friend Mr. W. E. Brooks, 

 of Etawah, who had a bird-skinner in readiness for me, was enabled 

 to renew my favourite study immediately after my arrival at Futteh- 

 gurh. The following notes refer to the districts of Cawnpore, 

 Etawah, Futtehgurh, Mynpoory, and Eta, or that portion of the 



Doab situated between the first-named district and Allygurh, a 



country through which my duties required me to travel during the 

 cold- weather months of 1870-71, viz. from November to 15 th of 

 April. The arrangement and nomenclature followed is that adopted 

 by Dr. Jerdon in his ' Birds of India ;' and the numbers used are the 

 same as in that work. In some cases I have had recourse to the 

 corrected synonyms as pointed out in Blyth's 'Commentary,' and 

 published in ' The Ibis.' 



1. "Vultur monachus, Linn. (The Cinereous Vulture.) 



This magnificent Vulture, though met with on several occasions in 

 small parties of twos and threes, can hardly be said to be a common 

 bird in this part of the country. It is a cold-weather visitant, arriving 

 in November, and leaving again in March for its breeding-haunts. 



On two occasions a pair of these Vultures allowed me to ride 

 circuitously to within 40 yards of them, when engaged on a dead 

 bullock, in company with Gyj)s bengalensis and G. indicus. On 

 another occasion, one that had been well gorged on a human body, 

 on the edge of the Cawnpore branch canal, allowed me to approach 

 behind the bank to within 10 paces. 



