1870.] A List of Birds from the Khasi hills Sfc. 91 



shews that it cannot be referred to that genus. It is, as a species, 

 evidently allied to H. lanceolata, H o o k. 



[PI. V, Hemionitis Zollinger i, Kurz, Fig. 1, whole plant, 

 natural size ; ; fig. la, a portion of the sterile frond, fig. 2 b, sl por- 

 tion of the fruit-bearing under surface of the fertile frond, — the 

 sori are removed. The 2 latter figures magnified.] 



LYCOPODIACEJE. 



102. Selaginella imbricatum (ought to be imbricata, as is also the 

 case with S. semicordatum, aristatum, Sfc.), J. Scott, in the list of 

 higher Crypt., 62, — is probably S. tenella, Spring. The var. a. 

 nor male (loc. cit.) is the same as 8. Belangeri, Spring, and the 

 var. /?. erectum (ibiden) differs in no way from S. Junghuhniana, 

 Spring. 



A List of Birds obtained in the Khasi and North Cachar 

 Hills, by Major Godwin-Austen, F. E. G-. S., Deputy 

 Sujpdt. Topographical Survey of India. 



[Received 1st January, read 5th January, 1870.] 



The following list of Birds obtained in the Khasi Hill Eanges 

 is here given, that it may prove useful to Indian Ornithologists, 

 interested in the range and distribution of different species ; for it 

 adds, as might be expected, very little to our previous knowledge 

 of the Birds of India in general, thanks to the researches of B 1 y t h, 

 J e r d o n and others. In the N. Cachar Hills, we have arrived 

 at the confines of a Natural Province, the Indo-Chinese, where, 

 , it may be expected, a great commingling of purely Indian, Hima- 

 layan and Chinese forms takes place ; with many it is probably near 

 the extreme western limit of the one, and the extreme eastern of 

 the other. In the Burrail range, — so little known to us, and almost 

 unknown to the Naturalist, — new species it was thought might be 

 found, and this hope led me to enter on a pursuit I had never be- 

 fore taken up. In possession of Dr. T. C. Jerdon's volumes 

 on the Birds of India, this pursuit soon became one of intense 

 interest, which relieved the monotony of the hours passed buried 



