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marching" about elsewhere, there were several thousand square 

 miles of Western Rajpootana, which at that time would scarcely 

 have exhibited from end to end a dozen more species than those 

 that I have above enumerated, altogether 81 in number. Any- 

 one who will compare this list with our list of the birds of Mount 

 Aboo, Northern Guzerat and adjacent territories, (Vol. Ill, 

 pp. 437-500, and Vol. IV, pp. 1-40), will see at once how large 

 a number of species had been banished by the drought. 



A. 0. H. 



% toiri&tttiow to tlje g&toms of t\t §«xan» 



By Messrs. Davidson, C.S., and Wenden, C.E. 



This Paper is offered as a supplement to the li List of Birds 

 collected in the vicinity of Khandalla, &c, &c, " by the Rev. 

 Mr. Fairbank, and which appears in Vol. IV., Stray Feathers. 



With this list of 255 species, the 103 which Mr. Fairbank 

 notes and we omit, and the additional three observed by Captain 

 Butler, the Avifauna of " the Deccan " is so far represented by 

 361 species. We note 44 species, which Mr. Fairbank does 

 not. 



Our list includes only those species which we have observed 

 along or above the crests of the Syhadree Ghats, and it has no 

 pretence to represent any very deep research, but is simply a 

 compilation of notes made by us at a time when we had no 

 notion of publishing the result of our observations. 



We have been at some pains to render our list reliable, 

 entering no birds about which we have doubt, excepting in cases 

 where the admission is made or implied. 



The accompanying map will show that our tract of observa- 

 tion has been somewhat extended. It may be said to embrace 

 the whole valley of the Bheema which, practically, runs for 

 its entire course parallel to the south-east branch of the G. I .P. 

 Kail way. Indeed it is along this tract that the authors have chiefly 

 worked, and their observations at Egutpoora, Khandalla, and 

 Mahableshwar may be termed casual. 



Egutpoora on the Thull Ghat, and Khandalla on the Bhore 

 Ghat, may be described in almost the same words. They are both 

 situated on the crest of the ghats. The temperature is similar, 

 ranging from a minimum of about 56° to a maximum of about 

 96.° They are both within the influence of the sea breeze, and 

 the rainfall is very heavy, averaging for the four months, June to 

 September, 155 inches at Khandalla, which is 1,793 feet above 



