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Should the species be undescribed, I propose the specific name 

 migratorius for it. I possess a male with two miniature white feathers 

 in the tail, shorter in length and placed underneath the others. 

 Malacca, March 2Qth, 1868. 



III. Notes on the Lion of Aboo, by Assistant Surgeon George King, 

 M. B., Bengal Establishment. 



I have collected the following particulars from various English 

 sportsmen in this part of Rajpootana and from native shikarees, all 

 of whom have seen or shot lions, and as there is a wonderful harmony 

 between the different accounts, I think they may be relied on. 



Both to Rajpoot and Bheel shikarees in these parts, the lion is 

 known, under the name of Untia-bdgh : in Kattiawar, where it also 

 occurs, it goes under the name of Sdwach. It is now beginning to 

 get scarce in its old haunts in the jungle at the base of Mount Aboo 

 and in the neighbouring plains, but whether from extermination or 

 from migration, it is difficult exactly to say. I am inclined to think 

 that the latter has a good deal to do with it. Having recently been 

 stationed at Goonah in Central India, near which six or seven lions 

 were shot in one season some years ago, I can bear testimony to the 

 fact that the appearance of the animal there, was quite a surprise to 

 both the European and Native sportsmen of the district, and that 

 since that year not one has been seen. The news of the first, as 

 observed at Goonah, was brought into the station by a native who 

 described a large unkown tiger-like animal which had been seen to 

 kill a kid near a neighbouring village. A party went out quite 

 uncertain as to what large animal they could be going after, which 

 had condescended to kill such small game as a kid. In the beat that 

 followed, a lion was turned out and killed — a poor enfeebled specimen 

 in very bad condition, and bearing the marks of numerous bites and 

 tears, — which in the opinion of the shooters had probably been 

 inflicted on him by the tigers into whose preserves he had intruded. 

 Shortly after that, in other beats in the neighbourhood of the station, 

 lions were turned out, and during the season, as just mentioned, six 

 or seven were shot. One was seen to escape by swimming across a 

 wide nullah. Lions have since been shot west of Goonah near 

 Kotah, and in the jungle between the latter place and Gwalior, two 



