1854.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 737 



the same colour as in the common Gallinule, the orange garter, how- 

 ever, less developed. Beak also coloured as in G. chloropus, but 

 much more slender ; and if the colouring can be relied upon, the red 

 passes further along the upper mandible, and the yellow further back 

 upon the lower mandible, while the frontal shield is small. There is 

 also no representation in either figure of the white markings of the 

 flanks conspicuous in the common Gallinule, and which the artist could 

 scarcely fail to have represented, had they existed in the specimens 

 before him. Convinced, therefore, that a peculiar and distinct species is 

 represented, we shall provisionally name it G-allinula Burnesii. 



Mr. Theobald has also presented nests of Oriolus kundoo, Lanius 

 Hardwickii, and Munia malabarica : of which last species he observed 

 the curious fact of two pairs of birds constructing a single ordinary nest 

 in common, within a few yards of his tent, where he was encamped for 

 several months continuously ; and from another nest of the same species 

 he took the extraordinary number of 25 eggs !* We are further indebted 

 to him for eggs of the following species of birds : — Buteo canescens 

 (rufinus ?) ; Poliornis tisa ; Haliaetus Macei, Neophron PERCNOP- 



TERUS ; OXYLOPHUS MELANOLEUCOS ; CENTROPUS RUFIPENNIS ; CoRVUS 



corax (from Punjab Salt Range) ;f C. ? (Kashmir hills) ; C. mo- 



nedula (Kashmir) ; Acridotheres tristis ; Munia malabarica ; Gale- 

 rida cristata; Malacocercus caudatus; Lanius lahtora; L. te- 

 phronotus; L. Hardwickii ; Thamnobia cambaiensis ; Pvcnonotus 

 cafer ? (bengalensis) ; P. hjemorrhous ; P. leucotis ; Nectarinia asia- 



TICA; TURTUR HUMILIS; AmmOPERDIX BONHAMI ; CACCABIS CHUKAR ; 

 PERDIX PONTICERIANA ; TURNIX OCELLATUS ; SARCIOPHORUS BILOBUS ; 



Herodias bubulcus ; Ardeola leucoptera ; Gallinfla CHLOROPUS 

 (Burnesii?); Pulica atra (Kashmir); Berdrocyona awsuree; Net- 



TAPUS COROMANDELIANUS ; PoDICEPS CRISTATUS (Kashmir); P. PHILIP- 



pensis ; and a few others, undetermined. 



Of reptiles, Mr. Theobald has favored us with specimens of Cyrtodac- 

 tylus macularius, 7i. s., from the Punjab Salt Range ; Gymnodacty- 

 lus geckoides (vide J. A. S. XXII, 410), from ditto ; Hemidactylus 

 Leschenaultii, D. and B., from ditto; Stellio cyanogaster, Eup« 

 pell (vide J. A. S. XXII, 64i6), from Kashmir; Laudaeia (?) melanura, 

 n. s., Kashmir (?) ; Charasia dorsalis, Gray, from Birbhum ; Agama 



* According to Col. Sykes, this species (his Lonchura cheet) sometimes takes 

 possession of the deserted nests of Ploceus Philippines (or more probably of 

 Pl. manyab). Proc. Zool. Soc. 1832, p. 95. 



f Vide p. 218, ante. 



