468 A FEW ADDITIONAL NOTES ON 
T saw a strange bird, much as I should have liked to do this. 
I am certain, however, that a very fine collection might be 
made in those hills. I saw very many birds I could not 
identify at times when I was unable to shoot them. I fancy, 
too, that many of the birds now registered as inhabiting 
these hills will eventually turn out to be nearly allied species, 
and not what they are now put down as, for example, P. 
melanurus. When I came to copy out my notes I was 
uncertain what to put down and what to leave out, so I 
thought it best to put down just what I had in my note 
book. I was on the hills for about three months, from the 
middle of March to the middle of June. The places I visited 
were: Kodikanal, Pulungi, Pittur and Kukal or Kookul with 
the country lyimg in between them. Kodikanal and Kukal 
are marked in Mr. Fairbank’s map. The Goondar river 
rises somewhere near Pumbarray and flows in a northerly di- 
rection through the centre of the Pittur valley. Pulungi is 
on the east side of the Pittur valley underneath the Tinna- 
vurray peak, and Pittur is to the north-west of Pulungi on 
the other side of the valley just to the south of Ullurrah- 
kurray head. Tinnavurray and Ullurrahkurray are both marked 
in Mr, Fairbank’s map. 
I have added only 33 species to Mr, Fairbank’s list (and to 
each of these to facilitate recognition I have prefixed an asterisk), 
and two of these Merula kinnisi, Kel., and Alauda australis, 
Brooks, cannot be said to have been properly identified, but 
T have little doubt that the Pulneys properly worked would 
yield at least 250 species, or nearly one hundred more than 
are embodied in both our lists put together. 
List oF BIRDS OBSERVED. 
2.—Otogyps calvus, Scop. 
I used to see one, and very often a pair, almost every day 
_ in the neighbourhood of the camp at Pulungi. 
4.—Gyps indicus, Scop. 
Saw several at Kukal, collected round the remains of a 
Sambhur. 
6.—Neophron ginginianus, Lath. 
On the slopes and occasionally on the tops of the hills. 
