ex] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVII, 
active service. Peace having been restored, he went to Dar- 
feeling on sick leave and made himsclf acquainted with many 
new forms peculiar to the Himalayan range. He then got 
himself appointed to a regiment in Burma (the 1]lth Native 
Infantry), and joining via Calcutta. lost no time in exploring 
this new field.” In Calcutta he sought and obtained the patron - 
age of Lord Canning for his projected series of manuals on 
subject, Ornithology; the first volume of which, under the 
title ‘The Birds of India’ was published in Calcutta in 1862, 
followed by the second, in two parts, at intervals during 
1863.” 
‘Meantime the author, who had already ‘traversed and 
re-traversed the length and breadth of the continent of India’ 
with the exception of its North-Western portion, availed himself 
of the sanction given him to prosecute his researches in any 
quarter. During the next five or six years he visited the 
sent part of the manuscript of the Reptiles to the press, he 
visited Assam and the Khasi Hills. Whilst at Gowhatty, he 
was prostrated by a severe attack of fever from which he never 
entirely recovered. As soon as he was convalescent he hastened 
to Calcutta, and soon after returned to England, where he arriv- 
ed in June 1870,’’ and died in 1872. ‘‘He cared neither for 
fatigue nor privations in his wanderings ; and being gifted with 
the power of rapid and accurate discrimination, he could detect 
at a glance peculiarities of form or habit indicative of a 
difference of species, even in birds on the wing.”’! 
Jerdon’s Manual of Reptiles was never published, so far 
as I have been able to ascertain, though Sir Walter Elliot states 
that it was printed and the sheets sent home after their author’s 
death. And the Manual of Fishes was never finished. The 
former was, however, to some extent replaced even before its 
completion, by Gunther's ‘‘ Reptiles of British India ” prepared 
in London under the auspices of the Ray Society, by whom it 
was published in 1864, and the latter was ultimately replaced 
by Day’s “ Fishes of India, ” which began to appear in 1875 
and was completed in 1878. 
| See Memoir of Dr. T. C. Jerdon, by Sir Walter Elliot ; Proceedings 
of the Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club, VI ; reprinted in second edition of 
‘* The Birds of India.”’ 
