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year at Goona by a storm of wind and rain, which filled in a day 

 many tanks and nullahs that had been dry for months. The storm 

 was succeeded by a week of cloudy but dry weather, during which 

 the newly filled tanks were frequented by large flocks of the two 

 species just mentioned, and also by smaller parties of Anas poecilo- 

 rhyncha and Sarcidiomis melanotic ; at the same time perfect crowds 

 of Buphus coromandus and Threskiomis melanocephalus were collected 

 by the grassy banks of a nullah, which had not been dried by the 

 hot weather sun. In a few days all had gone, [except a few of the 

 cotton and whistling teal which, as just mentioned, remained during 

 the rains] and I did not observe a single individual of any of them 

 until the cold weather had begun. These sudden movements were, 

 I dare say, an episode in some general migration. 



List of Birds of the Goona District, 

 Raptores. 

 Otogyps calvus, Sco t j. 

 Gyps Bengalensis, Gmel 

 Neophron Ginginianus, Lath. 

 Lithofalco subbuteo, Linn. 



■ Ohicquera, Daud. 



Tinnunculus alaudarius, Briss. 

 Micronisus badius, Gmel. 

 Aquila fulvescens, Gray. 

 Eutolmaetus Bonelli, Teimn. 

 Poliornis teesa, Frankl. 

 Circus cyaneus, Linn. 



■ Swainsonii, A. Smith. 



cineraceus, Montague. 



melanoleucos, Gmel. 



asruginosus, Linn. 



Haliastur Indus, Bodd. 

 Milvus Govinda, Sy/ces. 

 Pernis cristata, Cuvier. 

 Elanus melanopterus, Daud. 

 Bulaca ocellata, Lath. 

 Athene Brama, Temm. 



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