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rencei (the common Punjaub raven, vide ^^ Lahore to Yarkand^') 

 and saw Haliatus Albicilla and one or two pairs only of an enor- 

 mous black eagle that could be nothing- but Aquila Chrysaetus, 

 this latter being, by the way, the only single species, whether of 

 land or water bird, procured or seen either along the Mekran 

 Coast or at Muscat, which we did not also obtain or see in or 

 alono" the coasts of Sindh. 



(To he contimied.) 



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CONSPECTUS OF THE AVIFAUNA 



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INDIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. 



I HAVE been so repeatedly urged to publish a complete ca- 

 talogue of the Birds of India, so far as these are known to me, 

 as also of the specimens tliat are contained in my museum, that, 

 despite the vast labour it will involve and the little leisure I 

 have available, I have commeuced the work. 



In this catalogue I propose to include every species, so far as 

 this is known to me, which has been observed in any part of 

 India, including Cashmere, Nepaul, Sikhim, and other Hill 

 States, Ladak and Yarkand, Arracan, Burmah, and the Tenas- 

 serim Provinces, Assam and Cachar, Ceylon, the Andamans, and 

 the Nicobars. 



In this present work, which only pretends to be a first draft, 

 I cannot undertake to work out the synonymy of the various 

 species, about 1,500 in number. Each will be entered under the 

 name that, as at present informed, (and that is very imperfect- 

 ly) has, I believe, priority. Where Dr. Jerdon has given the 

 species under a different name, I shall enter that also and, in 

 some cases, in which the synonymy has been already carefully 

 worked out by others (e. g., by Sharp in the Alcedinidce, or in 

 the Birds of Europe, Elliot in the Pittida PJiasianidoi, Tetra- 

 onida, Gould in the Birds of Asia, the Marshalls in the Bariets, 

 Lord Walden in the Sunhirds, &c.), I shall add some of the 

 more important synonymes. 



I shall retain Dr. Jerdon's arrangement and numbers, intro- 

 ducing the birds not included by him, as his, ter, &c., of one of 



