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display more brilliant plumage than the male here selected, and few r wild 

 plants in Hindostan are more beautiful than the fruit-bearing Convol- 

 vulus. 



XII. 



The Bulbul, or Indian Nightingale, on a sprig of the Custard-apple 



Tree, 



The Bulbul, called also by the Persians, Hazardasitaun, or " the bird of 

 a thousand songs," is one of the most beautiful and melodious in the Indian 

 Ornithology. They differ very much in plumage, some being almost black, 

 and others of a lighter brown than that delineated in this plate with the 

 Custard-apple; both of which were drawn from nature at Bombay, and 

 are of the usual size and colour, 



XIII. 



A young Hindoo, among the secular Brahmins of distinction. 



The different castes of Hindoos are so fully described in the body of the 

 work, that it is only necessary here to observe, this plate represents the 

 usual dress of the younger Brahmins in the house, and a countenance differ- 

 ing very much from that of the Mahomedan youth in another engraving. 



XIV. 



A Hindoo Family of the Banian caste. 



This is engraved from my earliest drawing, attempting to represent the 

 costume of the natives, and the rural scenery in India; it was made in one 

 of those spots frequently alluded to in the Memoirs, whither the Hindoos 

 are fond of retiring with their families. 



