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I should like space to make a few remarks on these. With regard to several, 

 as far as I know, he is right, but in this district I have found the following 

 comparatively common : Chcetura sylvatica and Carpophaga aenea ; while Surni- 

 culus lugubris I have obtained on perhaps half a dozen occasions, and no doubt 

 owing to its resemblance to the Dicruriclce it is frequently overlooked. 



I have never myself obtained Cenlropus bengalensis, but my friend Mr. E. H. 

 Aitken informs me he has several times seen it in the North of the District, and 

 it therefore deserves its place in the handbook. 



I hope in another year when relieved from official duties to write a paper on 

 the Birds of Kanara, a considerable amount of material for which I have 

 collected, but in the meantime I may mention that the following birds not 

 mentioned in the handbook occur there: — 



Chcetura gigantea, Hass. ; 



Batrachostomus moniliger, Lay. ; 



Tiga javanensis, Ljung. ; 



Vivia innominate/,, Burt. ; 



A Iseonax ferrugineus, Hodgs. ; 



Garrulax delesserti, Jerd. ; 



Dendrocitta leucogastra, Gould. ; 



Osmotreron bicincta, Jerd ; 



Carpophaga cuprea, Jerd. ; and 



Rallina euryzonoides, Lafr. 



This is not the place to discuss the specific differences among the Caprinul- 



gidce, but I very much doubt the correctness of Mr. Blanford's views as to the 



identity of C. albonotatus and C. atripennis. The former bird I have never seen, 



but I have obtained eggs from the late Mr. Otto Moller, and they though 



larger were of the C. indicus or C, helaarti type, and not in the least like the 



spotted eggs of C. atripennis. I can find no note as to the call of C. albonotatus, 



but I shall be very much surprized if it is not of the "tukkoo tukkoo" 



description, and not a bit like the very distinct call of C. atripennis. 



J. DAVIDSON. 

 Karwae, 4th March, 1895. 



No. VIII.— THE OCCURRENCE OF THE DUGONG IN THE 

 INDIAN SEAS. 



Mr. Edgar Thurston, c.M.z.s., the Superintendent of the Madras Government 

 Museum, in his recently published description of Ramesvaram Island, Gulf of 

 Manaar (Bulletin No. 3, Second Edition) writes as follows : — 



" The phytophagous sirenian, Halicore dugong (the dugong), which is said 

 by Jerdon to be found in the salt-water inlets of South Malabar, feeding on 

 the vegetable matter about the rocks and basking and sleeping in the morning 

 sun, is, according to Emerson Tennent, attracted in numbers to the inlet from 

 the Bay of Calpentyn on the west coast of Ceylon to Adam's Bridge by the 

 still water and the abundance of marine algas in this part of the Gulf of 

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