34 NOTES ON THE AVIFAUNA OF MOUNT ABOO 
in the region of the belly ; thigh-coverts, like the back, black, 
glossed with green; lower tail-coverts dark brownish black ; 
under wi ng-coverts ‘and flanks brownish black. 
The specimen I have described was shot at Mount Aboo 
in May. 
[It is uncertain under what name this species should stand. 
It is probably fuscicollis of Stephens. Dr. King notes it from 
Jodhpoor, but I have seen no specimen thence, nor have I seen 
or heard of it from Sindh, Cutch, or Kattiawar.—A. O .H.] 
ues javanicus, Horsf. 
1007.—Graculus, melanognathus, Brandt. 
The Little Cormorant is not uncommon in the plains, but I 
did not observe it at Mount Aboo. 
[Dr. King shot (and preserved) a specimen on the Lake at 
Aboo. This species is common in suitable localities throughout 
the entire region.—A. O. H.] 
1008.—Plotus melanogaster, Gmel. 
The Indian Snake bird is common both on the hills and in 
the plains. Like Graculus carbo, with which species it 
often associates, it delights to sit upon some old dead or 
leafless tree on an island in the middle of a tank, or on a rock 
rising out of the water, with its tail spread and wings half 
open basking in the sun. 
[ Occurs throughout the entire region, but very sparingly in 
the more arid tracts.—A. O. H. ] 
[To obtain now aclear conception of the distinctive characters 
of the Avifauna of Aboo, we must deduct from the 175 species 
that have so far been shewn to occur there, the following 78 
which, elsewhere widely distributed throughout the Indian 
region, occur alike at Aboo, in northern Guzerat, Sindh, Cutch, 
Kattiawar and Jodhpoor :— 
6.—Neophron ginginianus, Daud. 180.—Brachypternus aurantius, Lin. 
17.—Tinnunculus alaudarius, Brisson. 188.—Yunx torquilla, Lin. 
23.—Micronisus badius, Ginel. 212.—Coccystes jacobinus, Bodd. 
24.—Accipiter nisus, Lin. 214.—Kudynamys honorata, Lin. 
29.—Aquila vindhiana, Frankl. 217.—Centropus rufipennis, I/liger. 
33.—Pseudaétus Bonelli, Tein. 234,—Arachnechthra asiatica, Lath. 
48.—Poliornis teesa, Frankl. 254.—Upupa epops, Lin. 
51.—Circus Swainsoni, A. Smith. 257.—Lanius erythronotus, Vigors. 
54,—Circus eruginosus, Lin. 260.—Lanius vittatus, Dum. 
56.—Milvus govinda, Sykes. 265.—Tephrodornis pondiceris ana, Gimel. 
100.—Cy pselus affinis. Gray. 276.—Pericrocotus peregrinus, Lin, 
117.—Merops viridis, Lin. 278.—Buchanga albirictus, Hod. 
123.—Coracias indicus, Liz, 292,—Leucocerca albofrontata, Frankl, 
129.—Haleyon smyrnensis, Lin. 323 bis ——Erythrosterna parva, Bechsé, 
134.—Alcedo bengalensis, Ginel. 351.—Cyanocincla cyana, Lin. 
136.—Ceryle rudis, Lin. 385.—Pyctorhis sinensis, Gimel. 
148,—Palornis torquatus, Bodd. 432,—Malacocircus terricolor, Hodg. 
