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number comprised in the avi-fauna of Europe), spread over 

 an area extending from the watershed of the Himalayas on 

 the north to Cape Comorin on the south, and from the 

 Indus on the west to the Teesta and Brahmapootra rivers 

 on the east, with brief notices of families and tribes not 

 found in India, to serve as a compendium for naturalists 

 scattered over that vast country, cut off, as they are, from 

 books of reference and the means of investigating new forms. 



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 Punjab, Cashmere, all the hill stations 

 of the great northern range, and explored the valley of the 

 Sutlej, penetrating as far as Chini. The volume of 

 Mammalia did not appear until 1867, although it had been 

 printed the year before at the Roorkee press. It contains 

 descriptions of 247 species, but is confessedly imperfect in 

 some of its minuter details. 



On the completion of this volume, he repaired to Darjeel- 

 ing, where he occupied himself with the Manuals of Reptiles 

 and Fish during the greater part of 1867-68. On the 28th 

 February of the latter year he retired from the service ; and 

 having sent part of the MS. of the Reptiles to the press, he 

 visited Assam and the Khasi Hills. Whilst at Gowahatty 

 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 arrived in June, 1870. His health continued to be 

 very precarious. The first winter was passed at Torquay, 

 the next at Mentone ; but he never rallied, and died at 

 Norwood, on the 12th June, 1872. 



The following is a complete list of his writings, as far as I 

 have been able to ascertain : — 



1. Catalogue of the Birds of the Peninsula of India, 8vo. 

 Madras: J. B. Pharaoh, 1839, pp. 203; having previously 

 appeared at intervals in the Madras Journal of Lit. and Sc, Vols, 

 xi., xii., and xiii. 



2. Illustrations of Indian Ornithology, containing fifty figures, 

 chiefly from the South of India ; 8vo. and 4to. Madras : Printed 

 by P. R. Hunt, 1847. Not paged. 



3. On the Fresh-water Fishes of South India. — Madras 

 Jour, of Lit. and Sc, Yol. xv., pp. 139 and 302. 1848. 



