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and Dholbhum are small states situated south of Purulia, and between 

 Midnapore on the east and Chyebassa on the west. This is in the 

 extreme east of the Chutia Nagpore country, indeed the tract in 

 question is often referred to as part of the South-Western Bengal. 



It is evidently from this paper of Tickell's that Jerdon has taken from 

 it a considerable number of references to birds which he described as 

 inhabiting Central India. He was never, I think, in Chutia Nagpore, 

 South- Western Bengal, or Orissa himself, and when he writes about 

 the country west of Ganjam^ which he did, I believe, visit, he calls 

 it Goomsoor. But he once made a journey to Bastar and the Indra- 

 wati valley, and it was there, I think, that he must have met with 

 some of the birds that are recorded in his book as having been seen 

 or obtained by himself in Central India. It will be noticed that he 

 draws the limit between Central and Southern India at the Godavery, 

 and Bastar is north of that river. 



The following is a list of species included by Mr. Barnes in his 

 handbook on account of their having been recorded from Central 

 India. 1 am doubtful whether any of them have been obtained in the 

 Bombay Presidency, and in any case it may be useful to call attention 

 to the possibility of their having been attributed to the area in error: — 

 Limnaetus kienerii, p. 35. 

 Circus melanoleucus, p. 52. 

 Stria Candida, p. 61. 

 Chatura syhatica^ p. 84. 



Cajprimulgus albonotatus, p. 90. (1 regard this and 

 C. atripennis as local forms of C. macrurus ; C. atri- 

 pennis has been obtained in the Bombay Presidency, 

 as stated in the handbook.) 

 Micropternus phaioceps, p. 1 18. 

 Surniculus lugubris^ p. 128. 

 Chrysococcyoe maculatus, p. 128. 



Centropus bengalensz's, p. 133. (Jerdon certainly in the 

 " Madras Journal," Vol. XIII, pt. 1, p. 172, stated 

 that Elliot found this bird in the Southern Maharatta 

 Country, but I suspect a mistake, as nothing of the 

 kind is stated in the " Birds of India." This species 

 is found in Mysore however.) 



