AND IN PARTS OF WYNAAD AND SOUTHERN MysorRB. 331 
Passing from the Wynaad to the Mysore country, the 
character of the vegetation continues much the same up to 
Rampore, on the line of division between Mysore and_ the 
Wynaad. From here the country begins again gradually to 
change, the soil becoming sandy, and the trees stunted, especially 
teak and blackwood when they occur; still further on it 
ehanges still more, all forest disappearing, and thorny scrub 
taking its place; the soil gets more sterile and rocky, till near 
Gundalupet it becomes very P rocky indeed. The country about 
Bandipur though is different, consisting of open jungle with 
fine grassy clades, and only here and there in the ravines dense 
scrub and bamboo, and so it continues for most of the way till 
Goodalore is again reached. 
To Mr. Rhodes Morgan I am greatly indebted, and it is 
mainly owing to his assistance that I was enabled to procure 
specimens of T. jerdoni, and I have to thank Mr. Hume for 
his kindness in verifying in many cases my identifications. 
All the birds collected during the trip are now in Mr. Hume’s 
Museum. 
[Mr. Davison enumerates 281 species. Of these, 4.— Gyps 
indicus, and, 986.—Sterna fluviatilis, probably should stand as, 
4 bis.—G. pallescens, and 987 bis.—Sterna albigena. 1385 quat.— 
Alcedo beavani, is doubtful, and probably, if identical with the 
Travancore bird, should beara distinct name. As for 105.— 
Batrachostomus moniliger, there is really no good reason for 
believing that it occurs on the Nilehiris. I have added in 
brackets 50 species* that I know to have oceurred within the 
limits to which Davison’s list refers; and there are fully an 
equal number of species which I am quite sure must occur 
there, but in regard to which I have no certain record, at least 
on which I can at the moment lay my hands. One point has 
to be remembered: Davison’s trip in the low country was very 
hurried, and was made during April and May after all the 
migratory ducks, &c., had left, so that, despite his long and 
accurate knowledge of the Upper Nilghiri birds, it is not sur- 
prising that his “list (written away from the museum, and 
when he was ill) should contain only, say, 280, out of a 
probable total (in round numbers) of 400 species.—Eb., 8S. F.] 
2.—Otogyps calvus, Scop. The Black Vulture. 
As Vultures count this species is not abundant on the 
Nilghiris, for, when perhaps as many as forty or fifty other 
' * Since this has been in type, Mr. Davison himself, in correcting the proofs, has 
confirmed from his own expeiience the occurrence of 8 or 10 of these 4v species.—Kp. 
