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4. A Catalogue of the Species of Ai^ts found in South India. 

 — Madras Jour, of Lit. and Sc., Vol. xvii., p 103. 1851. 



5. Ichthyological Gleanings in Madras. — Madras Jour, of 

 Lit. and Sc, Vol. xvii., p. 128. 1851. 



6. Catalogue of Reptiles inhabiting the Peninsula of India. — 

 Journal Asiatic Soc. of Bengal, Vol. xxii , pp. 462 and 522. 1853. 



7. The Birds of India ; 2 Vols, in 3, 8vo. Calcutta : 

 Vols. i. and ii,, Mil. Asylum Press; Vol. iii., Wyman and Co. 

 1862-4. 



8. Notice of some New Species of Birds from Upper Burmah 

 —Ibis, 1862, p. 19-23. 



9. The Mammals of India, 8vo. Koorkee : Printed for the 

 author by the Thomason College Press, 1867, pp. 319, with 

 Appendix, pp. xv. 



10. On Phcenicoptemsrubidus. — Ibis, 1869, p. 230. 



11. Notes on Indian Erpetology. — Proceedings Asiatic Soc. 

 Bengal, 1870, p. 66. 



12. On some New Species of Birds from the North-East 

 Frontier.— Ibis, 1870, p. 59. 



13. On two Species of Phasianidce. — Ibis, 1870, p. 147, 



14. Supplementary Notes to the Birds of India. — Ibis, 

 1871, pp 234 and 335-336. 



15. Ditto.— Ibis, 1872, pp. 1-22, 114-139, and 297-310. 



The above bears testimony to his industry, and to the 

 wide range of his biological pursuits. His favorite branch 

 was ornithology, and being a keen sportsman, he pursued 

 his researches as much in the field as in the house. Of a 

 spare active form, with an imperturbable good temper, he cared 

 neither for fatigue nor privations in his wanderings ; and 

 being gifted with the power of rapid and accurate discrim- 

 ination, he could detect at a glance peculiarities of form or 

 habit indicative of a difference of species, even in birds on 

 the wing. If he had recorded his observations methodically 

 as they were made, he would have accumulated a store of 

 facts of the highest value. Instead of this, it was his practice 

 merely to figure every species, both those captured by him- 

 self and those already depicted by others, for which purpose 

 he generally retained the services of a native draughtsman ; 

 or, on emergencies, made rough tinted or pencil sketches 

 himself. On these, which were of uniform octavo size, he 

 noted a few particulars of measurement, habitat, &c, and 

 trusted to a retentive memory for details. But such 

 materials were insufficient for that exact definition of 

 characters on which a genus or a species can be recognised 

 and accepted. Hence his lists are often found to be 



