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31 SfetattM dfatatop* of ifa $}irfte nfl the §mmx and 

 $ont\x JjRaltratia (tantrg. 



By Capt. E. A. Butler, E. M.'s 83nZ Regt. 



I desire to reproduce in a somewhat modified, and, I hope, 

 improved form, in Stray Feathers (where it will be more 

 generally available to ornithologists), a paper in which (at the 

 request of the compiler of the Bombay Gazetteer) I endeavoured 

 to give as complete a list as possible of the birds of the 

 southern portion of the Bombay Presidency. 



Roughly speaking the region to which this paper refers may 

 be said to extend as far north as Nagar iu about Latitude 19 p ; 

 south, as far as Goa, Latitude 16 p ; east to Sholapur about 

 Longitude 76° ; and west to Bombay or Longitude 73 Q . 



It includes the following districts which have been more 

 or less 



Ornithologically explored*: — 



Northern Deecan. — Nagar, Poona, Sholapur. 

 Southern Deecan. — Satara and Belgaum. 

 Konkan. — Savantvadi, Ratnagiri and Bombay (in part). 

 Sahyadri Range. — From Goa to Khandalla (partially) ; and 

 the following which may be classed as 



Ornithologically unexplored :— 



Southern Deecan. — Kolapur, Dharwar, Kaladgi. 



* It may be useful to note, so far as they are known to me, the names of those 

 who have collected within this region, and of the districts in which their collections 

 have been made. 



