1881.] W. T. Blanford's Census of the Indian Land Fauna. 2(55 



Cetacea, 23 



rodentia, ... 95 



Ungulata, ,«, 47 



SlBENTA, 1 



Edentata, 3 



405 



For Birds, I take Mr. Hume's lists* in ' Stray Feathers,' Vol. VIII, 

 pp. 81 — 116. It is scarcely necessary to say that the birds of India are 

 better known than any other class. For the convenience of Indian ornitho- 

 logists too, to whom the new classification is, as yet, not sufficiently familiar, 

 I adopt the old as employed by Jerdon, although I must apologize for 

 having recourse to an artificial and unscientific arrangement. I give the 

 numbers of some of the more important orders and families. As Mr. Hume 

 has shewn, about 70 species here included are doubtful. 



Raptobes : 



Accipitres, 97 



Strides, 52 



149 

 Insessoees : 



JPsittaci, 18 



JPicarice, • 212 



Passeres, 952 



1182 



Columbi, 46 



Rasoees : 



JPteroclidce, 8 



Grallce, 64 



72 



1449 



GbALLATOBES : 



Otidida, 6 



Limicolce, 67 



Gruidce, 4 



Rallidce, 22 



Ciconidce, 6 



* Mr. Hume's limits differ from mine by excluding Baluchistan and the Mergui 

 Archipelago, which I include. There are not, however, I believe, half a dozen birds 

 known from the two together that are not found within Indian limits elsewhere. 



