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liberty of transcribing some of the observations made by Dr. Jerdon 
of the Madras cavalry, in cases where I have not been able to obtain 
information. With regard to the nest and eggs of this honey-sucker 
he says: “Ihave lately (February) seen the nest of this pretty little 
bird close to a house in Jaulnat. It was commenced on a thick 
spider’s web, by attaching to it various fragments of paper, cloth, 
straw, grass, and other substances, till it had secured a firm hold of 
the twig to which the web adhered, and the nest suspended on this 
was then completed by adding other fragments of the same mate- 
rials. The hole is at one side near the top, and has a slight pro- 
jecting roof or awning over it. The female laid two eggs, of a 
greenish-grey tinge, spotted with dusky. The first nest it made 
was accidentally destroyed after two eggs had been laid, and the 
couple immediately commenced building another in a small tree at 
the other side of the door, and, as in the first instance, commenced 
their operations on a fragment of a spider’s web. They reared two 
young ones from the nest.” 
5. List or Matayan Birps COLLECTED BY THEODORE CANTOR, 
Ese., M.D.*, witH DESCRIPTIONS OF THE IMPERFECTLY 
KNOWN SPECIES. By FreperRIc Moore, Assist. Mus. 
East Inp1a Company. 
1. Gyps BENGALENSIS. 
Vultur bengalensis, Gmelin. (young). 
Vultur Changoun, Daudin. (adult). 
Vultur leuconotus, Gray and Hardw. Il. Ind. Zool. i. t. 14 (adult). 
Gyps bengalensis, Gray and Hardw. Ill. Ind. Zool. 1. 15 (young). 
Gould, Birds of Asia, t. 35. 
Vultur indicus, Scopoli. ? Sonn. Voy. t. 105? 
A specimen agreeing with those collected in the Dukhun by Col. 
Sykes. 
2. HrieRAX CEHRULESCENS. 
Falco cerulescens, Linn. Horsf. Temm. Pl. Col. 97. 
Falco fringillarius, Drapiez, Dict. Class, t. 21. 
Hierax malayensis, Strickland. (Edw. Birds, t. 108). 
Auuap or ALLAP ALLAP of the Javanese (Horsf.). 
Seep Bexane of the Malays in Penang (Cantor). 
«The Indian species of these tiny Falcons (which weigh but a 
few ounces) are trained for hawking in the Upper Provinces, being flown 
at quails and other game of corresponding size, as I have been in- 
formed,’ remarks Mr. Blyth, “by different eye-witnesses of the 
sport.” Captain Mundy, in his ‘Sketches of a Tour in India,’ ii. 
p- 25, thus describes it :—‘‘ We had also some amusing sport with 
another kind of falcon, a very small bird, perhaps barely so large as 
a thrush, and its prey was proportioned to its strength. It is flown 
* Presented to the Museum of the Honourable East India Company, April 
1854. 
