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mahl, the ceded districts (Bellary and Cuddapah), the kingdoms of 

 Berar and Hyderabad, the Southern Mahratta country, and thevDecan. 

 The species already noticed in this range are 390, and the list will 

 probably be extended before the completion of the catalogue, which 

 now reaches only to a part of the Strigidae. Of the Falconidse, 32 spe- 

 cies are noted ; and among those belonging to the British list we have 

 Pandion Haiiaiitos, Aquila Chrysaetos, Circus cineraceus and rufus, Falco 

 peregrinus and tinnunculus, Accipiter fringillarius, and Astur palumbarius. 

 It is possible however that some of these may require a more rigorous 

 comparison with the birds of Europe. This part of the catalogue is 

 illustrated by a lithographic figure of an owl (Huhua pectoralis), very 

 neatly engraved ; and if figures can be produced in India equal to that 

 now attempted, they will be of much importance in illustrating the 

 views of the gentlemen who may in future attend to the zoology of this 

 very interesting region. Our correspondent states, " I have 50 or 60 

 drawings in the same style*, drawn by myself and finished by the native 

 artists I kept at Trinconopoli, most of them of birds hitherto unfigured. 

 I shall commence sending my specimens next month, and hope by the 

 end of the year to have forwarded to you a series of all I have procured, 

 for the identification of species, &c. As you requested, I now add a few 

 remarks on the Indian Fox and Wolf. Canis Bengalensis, Shaw, C. Kokree, 

 Sykes, lives chiefly on the open plains, burrows in the ground, generally 

 four or five openings to the burrow, some of which communicate with 

 each other ; others are blind : it feeds chiefly on lizards, locusts, grass- 

 hoppers, beetles, small snakes, and occasionally crabs and rats ; runs 

 with remarkable speed ; the chase with greyhounds is a favourite pursuit 

 in India. — Canis Lupus, C. pullipes, Sykes, Wolf: hunts in small packs 

 and runs down antelopes and hares, seizes also sheep in a very daring 

 manner in daylight, and carries off young calves, goats, sheep, &c. 

 during nights, and not unfrequently children. It possesses great speed 

 and most extraordinary powers of endurance. Though often chased by 

 the best horsemen, unless it is gorged, it always outlasts the fleetest 

 horse, keeping generally 20 or 30 yards ahead at whatever pace the 

 rider may go. 



" Dr. Krauss's Return from Southern Africa. 



It will be remembered, that about two years and a half since, Dr. 



Ferdinand Krauss of Stuttgard, left England for the Cape, on his way 



to explore the interior of Southern Africa, with a view to collect 



objects of Natural History from those regions. He has within the last 



* Specimens accompany the packet well drawn and beautifully finished. 



