1849.] On the Aborigines of the Eastern Frontier \ 967 



Corrections to notes on Land and Fresh Water Shells, collected in 

 Afghanisthan. By Capt. Thomas Hutton. 



By a letter lately received from W. H. Benson, Esq., I find that 

 the following corrections are required to my notes on Afghan shells, 

 published in the July number of this Journal for 1849 ; many changes 

 having lately taken place in regard to the names bestowed by writers 

 in India. 



No. 1. for " Parmacellus" — read " Parmacella." 

 No. 4. Helix Bactriana (Hutton). Dr. Pfeiffer regards this as only a 



variety of the European H. strigella. 

 No. 8. Pupa spelcea (Hutton). According to the present classification 



this will stand as Bulimas spaloeus (Hutton), unless it 



has been previously published by Mr. Benson as B. 



eremita. 

 No. 9. Pupa Indica (Benson's Mss.) 



P. cylindrica (Hutton), now stands as Bulimus pullus (Gray). 

 No. 10. Pupa ccenopicta (Hutton), is now Bulimus ccenopictus. 

 No. 11. for "shell convid" — read " Shell conoid ." 

 No. 16. Melania elegans (Benson), is now M. spinulosa (Lamarck). 

 No. 17- M. pyramis (Benson), is M. tuberculata (Muller). 



On the Aborigines of the Eastern Frontier. — By B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



In continuation of my papers already submitted to the Society hav- 

 ing in view to exhibit summarily the affinities of all the aborigines of 

 India, I now submit Vocabularies, uniform with their precursors, of the 

 written and spoken Burman, the Singpho, the Naga in three dialects, 

 the Abor and the Miri tongues. 



For this series I am indebted to the Rev. N. Brown of Sibsagor, 

 who in forwarding it to me favoured me with the following remarks : — 



" These specimens appear fully to establish the fact that the Burman, 

 Singpho, Naga and Abor languages are very close relatives, and ought 

 not to be separated into different families, as they sometimes have been. 

 The Burman and Singpho, it is true, have been regarded as nearly rela- 

 ted ; but I am not aware of its ever having been supposed that the 

 Naga or Abor were closely related to the Burman, or that there was any 



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