288 AVIFAUNA OF CHOTA NAGPUR. 



gbitaa of Cljotit ffejpr* 



Addenda et corrigenda. 



By V. Ball, M.A., F.G.S. 



Since my paper on the birds of Chota Nagpur was published 

 in Stray Feathers I have had an opportunity of revisiting that 

 part of the country and adding to the number of recorded 

 species. To local correspondents, more particularly to Mr. Levin 

 of Daltongunj, I am indebted for much information, partly new 

 and partly confirmatory of my own previous observations. By 

 these means I am enabled to add 9 species to the 304 pre- 

 viously known, thus arriving at the very respectable total of 

 313. Although I do not think this includes all the species still, 

 as I do not see much prospect before me of having an oppor- 

 tunity of adding further to the number, I think it better not 

 to delay the publication of the present contribution. 



Some few changes in the nomenclature have been necessi- 

 tated ; these, it is hoped, will be noted by those who possess the 

 original list. 



Colonel Tickell's former connection with Chota Nagpur, and 

 the uncertainty which still attaches to some of the species which 

 he recorded from that part of the country, make it desirable to 

 note here that (l At the meeting of the Zoological Society of 

 the 1st December 1874, it was announced by the Secretary that 

 Colonel R. S. Tickell, late of H. M.'s Indian Army, had 

 presented to the Society's library a very finely illustrated MS. 

 work in seven small folio volumes on the ornithology of India." 



Reference to this work may possibly throw some light on 

 the vexed questions regarding the identity of the Spizaetus 

 Zafhami, Lath., of Tickell, JEthoipyga {Nectarinia) Seherice, Tick., 

 and several other birds. 



The greater part of my last season's work was in Sambalpur, 

 where, as was to be expected, the birds are almost entirely of 

 the same species as those found in Chota Nagpur. I have, 

 however, met with a few species not included in my list : among 

 these few I may mention two Owls, Otus brachyotus, G-mel., and 

 Bulacca ocellata, Less., neither of which, so far as I know, has 

 been seen in Chota Nagpur : also Chcetornis striatus, Jerd., 

 which I found on the banks of the Mahanadi. 



Hereafter I hope to have an opportunity of adding consi- 

 derably to my collection and obtaining sufficient material for a 

 general sketch of the Avifauna of Sambalpur and the adjoining 

 tributary states." 



