ROUGH LIST OF THE BIRDS OF WESTERN KHANDESH. 285 
visited by me are marked in red, will show that, although much 
of the district has not been visited, yet, except in the southern 
portion, there is no type of country in it of which I have not 
seen samples, so that the list should contain a fair proportion of 
the birds of the entire district. These are, as a rule, what 
might naturally be expected from the position and type of 
country of Khandesh, but a few rare birds, such as Salpornis 
spilonotus and Heteroglaux blewittt, seem to have their head- 
quarters there. The most noticeable deficiency is that of 
Thrushes and Bulbuls. Of the former I have seen two speci- 
mens of Pitta brachyura, while Cyanocinclus cyanus is moderate- 
ly common among the rocky hills. I have, however, never 
seen such common Decean species as Myiophoneus horsfieldi, 
Merula nigropilea, Petrophila cinclorhyncha, and at least one 
species of Geocichla. Some of these probably do occur in the 
cold weather, but they must be rare, or I should have come 
across some of them. The only Bulbul I have seenis Molpastes 
hemorrhous. Otocompsa fuscicaudata I fully expected to find, 
but I certainly never came across it either in the Sabyadra 
range in Pimpalnir or among the Satpuras. 
List. 
2.—Otogyps calvus, Scop. The Black Vulture. 
Permanent resident. Generally distributed throughout the 
district, but by no means common anywhere. As a rule appears 
to resort to the Satpuras to breed, numerous nests being found 
by me in March there, and without exception on high: trees in 
thick jungle. The only other nest I found was on a “high tree 
among scrub jungle at the foot of the Bhameir fort in ‘Nizam- 
pur. “This was in the beginning of January and the bird had 
not laid. : 
3bis.—Gyps fulvescens, Hume. The Bay Vulture. 
Decidedly rare, but noticed by me on two or three occasions 
in the cold weather in Dhulia and Nandurbar. 
4bis.—Gyps pallescens, Hume. The Long-billed Pale- 
- brown Vulture. 
This was the common Vulture of Western Khandesh, and 
breeds abundantly along the cliffs in the south of Pimpalnir, 
at the Bhameir fort in Nizampur, and also along the cliffs in 
the Satpuras. Some nests taken by me in the last week of 
December at the Bhameir fort ee either hard- set € eggs 
or small young. r : 
