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the heaps of small waders that appear there daily for more than half the year. 

 In like manner Numenius phceopus, and Strepsilas interpres, are very rarely 

 brought, and I have never yet obtained there the common Hamatopus of the 

 shores of the Bay, nor Calidris arenaria (which has at least once been procured 

 by Mr. Jerdon). Three other species that I have respectively obtained only 

 once, are Vanellus (?) leucurus, Tringa canutus (which has once likewise been 

 procured by Mr. Jerdon), and Pkalaropus lobatus. The last was obtained on 

 the 11th May, 1846 ; it was exceedingly emaciated, and had not commenced 

 changing colour. The Woodcock I have obtained here twice, and have heard 

 of other instances of its occurrence. During the present cold season, I have 

 procured for the first time Podiceps cristatus, L., which I am informed is not 

 rare in the Soonderbuns :* and I have once only procured the beautiful Anas 

 formosa, Gin., (v. glocitans, &c, nee bimaculahi). The Mallard (Anas boschas) 

 never, nor has it been met with in the peninsula of India, though occurring up the 

 country. The same holds with Vanellus cristatus, and one or two other 

 species. In the peninsula of India, Mr. Jerdon has once only procured the 

 Australian Hiaticula nigrifrons, which he has described by the name Charadrius 

 russatus.f Another Grallatorial bird discovered by Mr. Jerdon, which I may 



* The excessively rude fowling-pieces used by the bazar shikavrees are little calcu- 

 cated for hitting- such wary and rapid divers as the Crested Grebe. 



f Among- the land-birds, one or two stragglers, chiefly from the hills, have severally 

 been here met with once : such are Gecinus striolatus, nobis, G. chloropus, Vieillot, 

 Cypselus micro-pus, nobis, Tephrodomis grisola, nobis (a Malayan species), Monticola 

 cinclorhyncha, (Vig.), and Calliope cy ana, (Hodgson). Other chiefly hill species on 

 two or three occasions only; as Chrysocolaptes sultaneus, (Hodg.), Accipiter fringil- 

 larius, Ace. virgatus (v. besra), Falco perigrinator, F. severus, F. subbuteo, and Tinnun- 

 culus vespertinus ; O dolus cochinchinensis ; Treron nipalensis, Tr. chlorigaster (the S. 

 Indian representative of the common Tr. phoinicopterus of N. India, now and then 

 met with, as is likewise the white-bellied Amadina malacca, similarly representing in S. 

 India the A. sinensis of Bengal, &c.) ; Brachyurus triostegus (Sparrman, the Pitta 

 brachyura apud Gould,) occasionally ; and there are species of the Phylloscopus group 

 which I have hitherto procured only once, as Abrornis cantator, (Tickell, v. Abr. 

 schisticeps, Hodgson, apud G. R. Gray, nee apud nos, XIV, 592), Phylloscopus 

 indicus, (Jerdon, v. Ph. gdseolus, nobis, XVI, 443, as now identified by that gentle- 

 man), Ph. javanicus, (Horsf., v.magnirostris, nobis), and Ph. nitidus nobis, twice. 

 And there are several species of birds which I have never yet obtained on the alluvium 

 of the river, but which abound immediately this is quitted, and thence are distributed 

 southward even to Ceylon. Vide my note on this subject, XVI, 117. Also certain 

 mammalia, as Sciurus tristriatus, and sundry Muridce. 



Since the above was written, I have likewise obtained in Calcutta a fresh specimen of 

 Caprimulgus macrounts (verus), Horsfield, common in Arracan, Tenasserim, Malacca, 

 Java, and thence to the northern coast of, Australia. In Bengal and northern India gener- 



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