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work many years later ; no collection from the neighbourhood 

 of Bustar that I have seen, and I have examined two, has con- 

 tained specimens, and we have now worked out to a certain 

 extent the range of Vigorsi, which so far as ascertained is not 

 very reconcilable with its extension to Bustar. 



So far as I have traced it, Vigorsi is only found in the lower 

 valley of the Tapti in Western Khandeish, in the Hills north 

 of Western Khandeish, aud aloug the whole Hue of ghats from 

 the Tapti, to some distance south of Makabaleshwar, but not so 

 far as I have yet ascertained extending along the ghats to 

 South Canara. In this limited range it is common enough, 

 but nowhere in the Peninsular eastward of this has it ever 

 been procured, and its appearance, 600 miles to the eastward, 

 and nowhere in the most suitable intervening localities, is, to my 

 mind, very doubtful. 



To sum up then, Tickell's description applies perfectly to 

 miles ; there is no sort of improbability in a single straggler 

 of this species occurring in Borabhum. Tickell's specimen must 

 have been a straggler and not the representative of a distinct 

 species ; it must have been either miles or Vigors:, and the 

 description will not fit the latter, which moreover could not 

 well occur there. 



It only remains to notice that Tickell's name was published 

 November 1833, J. A. S. B., Vol. II., p. 577, while Hodgson's 

 name, which appeared in the Indian Review, Vol. II., p. 273, 

 was only published in 1837. 



In his admirable " Catalogue," (Vol. I., p. 7,) Mr. Bowdler 

 Sharpe gives t( Gyps fulviis, Jerd. Birds of India, I. p. 8" as 

 one of the synonymes of my Gyps fulvescens. 



This is an oversight ; Jerdon's G. fulviis is really a syno- 

 nyme of my Gyps himalayensis, as is clear from his remark 

 that the species he refers to " is nearly confined to the Hima- 

 layan ranges in India." 



So far as we know fulvescens never occurs in the Himalayahs, 

 nor does himalayensis, even as a straggler and in the cold sea- 

 son, wander south of them beyond the submontane tracts. 



At the same time the description, measurements and colours 

 of soft parts seem to have been borrowed, and would perhaps 

 fit the true fulvus, {t The Griffon," better than our Hill bird, 

 " The Roc." 



Again (op. cit. p. 8.) Mr. Sharpe gives Vultur indiciis of Tern. 

 (P. 0. 26) as a synonyme of himalayensis, but the bai'e head 

 and neck and general tone of coloration show to my mind 

 conclusively that Temmmck's bird was really fulvescens. 



