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ami thusu who aro not. Thu Schedule as priutud reads in English and 

 in Hindustani as follows : — 



En(/iish. 



( i ) Bustards . , 

 Ducks 



Floricans . . 

 Jungle Fowl 

 Partridges . . 

 Peafowl 

 Pheasants 

 Pigeons 

 Quail 



Sandgrouse 

 Painted Snipe 

 Spur Fowl. . 

 Wood Cock 

 Herons 7 

 Egrets 3 

 Rollers 



and 

 King Fishers 

 (ii) Antelopes . . 

 Asses 

 Bison 



Buftaloes . . 

 Deer 

 Gazelles 

 Goats 

 Hares 

 Oxen 

 Rhinoceroses 



and 

 Sheep 



I'crnaciUar, 



Bastaku (T). 



mukghabian. 



Flokikan (T). 



Jangli Mukuhauian (M). 



TlXAK. 

 MOK. 



Chikok (M). 



Kabutak. 



Batek. 



Senukaus (T). 

 Chahe. 



asparfaul (t). 

 Htjdhub (M). 



Bagle. 



ROLEK, (T). 

 KiNGFISHll (T). 



Antelaup (T). 

 Gadhe (M). 

 Baisan (T). 

 Bhainse (M). 

 Bakasinghe (M) 



HiRAN. 



Bakre (M). 

 Khakgosh. 

 Bail (M). 

 Gainde. 



l^HERIAN (M). 



With regard to the English Schedule it is hardly necessary to lay stress 

 in this Journal (published by and for naturalists) or its scientific short- 

 comings. Those among our readers who have been called to the bar can 

 moreover, as a matter of practical politics, imagine themselves successfully 

 defending a client prosecuted (we will say) for shooting a serow — which is 

 not included in the Schedule, or demonstrating on irreputable scientific 

 authority that a Burrhel was neither a sheep nor a goat. 



The Vernacular Schedule is of course nothing more nor less in most cases 

 than a mistranslation or transliteration, by some person conspicuously 

 lacking in Natural History knowledge, of terms which he did not under- 

 stand. We have marked the mistranslations with the letter M — the trans- 

 literations with a T. Together they total seventeen specifications out of 

 twenty-seven. The actual working of this Act will lie to a very large extent 

 indeed in the hands of persons unacquainted with English, and to them 60 

 per cent, of the terms used are perfectly unintelligible. Naturally the Act as 

 it stands can never be expected to work at all. 



There is no adequate explanation. A double mistake has been made — 

 and there is no more to be said on the subject. Fortunately both mistakes 

 are very easy to remedy. The intention of the Schedule is clear enough. 

 Any one armed with the " Fauna of British India " can make out a list of 

 the birds and mammals to which the Act is intended to apply, which would 

 satisfy both scientific and practical considerations. The '•'English" 



