252 LIST OF BIRDS COLLECTED IN THE 
(Orocetes cinclorhynchus, Geocichla cyanotus, and Pitta coro- 
nata) more than a hundred miles east of their usual haunts. 
The list of Konkan birds would doubtless be increased by 
collecting at Bombay and along the coast. Even in the vicinity 
of Ahmednagar where I have collected for many years, a bird 
turns up now and then that had not been obtained before. 
It seems best to still adhere to Jerdon’s classification and 
numbers also when the bird is described in his Birds of India, 
although the time has doubtless come for adopting a more 
natural classification. It is to be hoped that the next complete 
work on Indian Ornithology, will give us a classification 
improved up to the present state of the science. 
2.— Otogyps calvus.—Throughout the region. 
4.— Gyps indicus.—Throughout. 
5.— Gyps bengalensis—Throughout. 
6.—Neophron gingianus.—Every where. 
11.—Falco jugger.—Common in the Dakhan. Not one seen 
at Khandala. Obtained one at Parr, six miles west of 
Mahabaleshwar. 
16.—Chicquera typus.—More common in the Dakhan, but 
obtained also at both Khandala and Mahabaleshwar. 
17.—Tinnunculus alaudarius.—Everywhere in the cold 
season. 
18.—Erythropus cenchris.—I obtained a pair in January 
1861, near Ahmednagar, out of a flock of perhaps two dozen. 
They were resting on a small babhul (deacta arabiea) tree. 
The skins were sent to America, and I know not where they 
may be at present. Ihave been unable to find them since, 
and so cannot tell whether the birds were true i. cenchris, 
but they answered well to Jerdon’s description. 
23.—Micronisus badius—Common. The iris of the adult male 
is brilliant vermillion red ; but that of the female is yellow. 
24.—Accipiter nisws.—Iwo specimens that I referred to 
this species, were obtained on the road between Poona and 
Mahabaleshwar, but were sent away, and for two years I have 
not found an individual for more careful examination. 
25.—Accipiter virgatus.—I obtained by Parr, near Mah’r, 
birds that I unhesitatingly called besra, and distributed to 
correspondents as such. Afterwards I sent a bird shot in the 
same locality, but put up, without special examination, to Mr. 
Hume. He wrote me that it was doubtless a shzkra. I did not 
find the desra at Khandala, the season for them having past, so 
Tam not able to prove that the birds I obtained at Parr were 
of this species, or rather that the besra inhabits the Bombay 
region ; it is, however, known to inhabit Canara. 
29.— Aguila vindhiana.—Common throughout our region. 
