38 NOTES ON THE AVIFAUNA OF MOUNT ABOO 
H. 273.—Pericrocotus brevirostris, Vigors. 
596.—Pipastes maculatus, [odgs. 
600.—Corydalla rufula, Viel. 
W.699.—Lonchura punctulata, Lin. 
W.908.—Porzana akool, Sykes. 
W..920.—Ciconia leucocephala, Gmel. 
W.475.—Copsychus saularis, Lin. 
Aboo, Guzerat, 
Kattiawar and pw 516.—Acrocephalus dumetorum, Blyth. 
Koochawun 
W. 288.—Tchitrea paradisi, Lin. 
There remains 12 species which extend more or less into the 
desert country and occur some in Jodhpoor, some in Cutch, some 
in Sindh and some in 2 or more of these, as well as at Aboo. 
Now of the 63 species, that may be said broadly to charac- 
terize Aboo as distinct from Northern Guzerat, and the rest of 
the region with which we are dealing, nearly half appear to be 
solely absent from the latter, because, pertaining essentially to 
well-wooded and watered tracts, they find no suitable haunts 
in these arid Western Provinces. To these I have prefixed the 
letter W. A good many, and to these I have prefixed the letter 
S., are essentially southern birds; birds of the Peninsula which 
for the most part find at Aboo the extreme northern limit of 
the area of their distribution. A few, (marked F’,) are more 
essentially forest and jungle species, and a few more (marked H,) 
may be said to be hill birds, for the most part wanderers from 
the Himalayas to the lower hills of the Continent of India 
during the cold season. 
In fact when we come to analyse it, the Avifauna of Aboo 
has nothing to surprise us, and looking to the physical condi- 
tions of the problem we might almost independently, from our 
knowledge of the haunts and habits of the species elsewhere, 
have predicted a distribution such as we now find actually to 
exist. Only 2 species, Pipastes maculatus and Corydalla rufula, 
ought certainly, it would seem from what we know of them, 
to extend to Jodhpoor generally, Cutch, Kattiawar and Sindh, 
and though hitherto overlooked in all of these, it is my firm, 
conviction that they will nevertheless prove to occur there. 
It is, I think, rather in the forms absent from Mount Aboo, 
and that we might reasonably have expected to meet with there, 
that the Avifauna is at all abnormal. 
Doubtless our list is not yet quite complete, but still several 
of us have collected there, and Dr. King and Captain Butler 
during lengthened periods, so that we know now tolerably 
