208 On the Birds of lie Goona District. [No. 4, 



English. Hrusso or AngJca. 

 He is grazing cattle on the top of 



the lull - Semifu khakus, done fu. 



He is sitting on a horse under that Shoni elo fugra idsuze nuna 



tree, ... r5da - 



His brother is taller than his sister, Enumise eama pshiifada. 



The price of that is two rupees and 



a. lialf ... Tokar pukse adulia. 



On the Birds of the Goona District; by George King, M. B., 

 Assistant-Surgeon, Mavwar Political Agency. 



[Received 10th March, 1868.] 



Goona is a small station in Central India on the Agra and Bombay 

 mail road, 200 miles south of Agra. It is situated in the territory of 

 H. H. the Maharajah of Gwalior, and in a very thinly populated and 

 comparatively little known part of the country. Having been attach- 

 ed from the months of March to December of the past year, to one of 

 the regiments of Central India Horse stationed there, I took the op- 

 portunity of noting the birds of the surrounding district, thinking 

 that a list of them might have some interest with respect to the 

 geographical distribution of species. Not having remained a full year 

 in Goona, the list subjoined is necessarily incomplete in respect of 

 some of the migratory species, especially of water-fowl and waders, 

 and I feel sure that an observer resident there for several years, would 

 be able to add the names of many occasional visitants and very local 



species. 



Every care has been taken in the identification of the species given, 

 and the names of none have been inserted on hearsay. I have the 

 authority of the sportsmen of the station for believing that the names 

 of Bed Spur-fowl, the Indian Bustard, the Golden Plover, the Kulan, 

 the -European Bittern, and the Barred-headed Goose, might have been 

 added, as occasionally occurring in the district, but not having my- 

 self shot or seen specimens, I have excluded them. The book chiefly 

 used in identifying the species has been Dr. Jerdon's admirable 



