4 A FIRST LIST OF THE BIRDS 



of monkeys, one of which much resembles a baboon. Ele- 

 phants, buff aloe and initna* are found where the jungle is not 

 much disturbed. 



ft Sambur, parbuttia f, spotted deer, barking and hog deer, 

 and two other varieties of deer are very common ; tigers, leo- 

 pards, civet cats, three or four varieties of wild cats, boars, sand 

 badgers $, otters, ichneumons, foxes, jackals, and wild-dogs are 

 often seen. The other common animals are squirrels, martens, 

 porcupines, rats, moles, scaly ant-eaters, &c. 



" Flying foxes and many varieties of bats abound. Porpoises 

 are common in the Barak, also large long-snouted croco- 

 diles (Gharialis gangeticus) and Hydrosauri. I have not seen 

 the snub-nosed crocodile (G. palustris) here. 



" All the rivers teem with fish, such as mahseer, hilsa, 

 poi, cheetal, pakaringa, batchua, and mauy other coarse fish. 



u Snakes, lizards, frogs, land crabs, and turtles, abound. The 

 cobra is not very often seen, but a species of python is often 

 killed, as much as 25 feet long. 



" The province is very rich in insects ; day-and night-flying 

 lepidoptera are very varied and plentiful, stick insects and pray- 

 ing mantes are common. The leaf insect is not rare. 



" The specimens I have hitherto sent, represent, perhaps, one- 

 third of the species I have seen, but not secured. You will 

 observe that I have secured but few small birds, but I 

 intend this season to get hold of most of them. Of their nidifica- 

 tion I know very little. The myriads of ants, centipedes, 

 leeches, ticks, and other insects with which the jungles swarm 

 tend to make birds' nesting the very reverse of a pleasure." 



The list is as follows : — 



13.— Hypotriorchis subbuteo, Lin. 



"I shot a female in March 1876, the only one I have ever 

 come across. — J. I." 



One specimen, a female not quite adult; wing, 11*0 a rather 

 unusual size. 



17.— Tinnunculus alaudarius, Bris. 



lt The Kestril is very common during the cold weather, but 

 I have not seen it during the rains. — J. I." 



* Gavceus frontalis. — Ed., S. F. 



f Possibly the swamp deer. (Bucervus duvaucellii.) — Ed., S. F. 

 X This is Arctonyx collaris, the bear-boar, or as Jerdon calls it the hog-badger.— 

 Ed., S. F. 



