Vie DEWOISELLE Calls. 
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Anthropoides virgo, Linné. 
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Vernacular Names.—[Karkarra, (Hindee) V. W. Provinces ; Ghanto, Nepal ; 
Kurkurchi, (Mahrathi) Sefara; Kallam, Deccan (of many) ; ; Karkoncha, 
(Canarese) ; Parvuth-akee (Canarese), Mysore and North of Coimbatore District ; 
Wada- -koraka, (Telegu) ; Shuck duruck, Cadbul ; 
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ae JHE Demoiselle Crane is another species, of which the 
Indian range is still very ill-defined. I am quite 
unable to ascertain its limits towards the east and 
north-west. To the south, I know of its extending 
on the west to the southernmost portions of the 
Deccan, not, however, occurring in the Southern 
“ Konkan or on the Malabar Coast. 
in She central portion of the Peninsula, Mr. Albert Theobald 
writes, that he has only seez it in the neighbourhood of Collegal, 
in the north of the Coimbatore District and northwards of this, 
but that he has heard, from reliable persons, that it has occurred 
as far south as Tinnevelli. Even if it does stray at times 
further south than Collegal, it must (as Mr. Theobald has been 
for many years shooting and collecting in all the southernmost 
districts of the Peninsula and has never yet seen it there), be 
an extremely rare visitant to this part of the Empire. To 
Ceylon there is no record of its having ever wandered. 
In both Mysore and the Nizam’s dominions it does occur, 
though it is probably, even in these, far from common. 
On the east no one records it from any of the Madras Dis- 
tricts, nor does Ball include it in his list from the “ Ganges to 
the Godavari.” It does not seem to occur at all in Lower 
Bengal, or in the districts east of the Brahmaputra, or in any 
part of Burma. But it certainly occurs in the Népal and 
Sikhim Tarais, and the Duars, and as I gather from Colonel 
Graham’s remarks, in the valley of Assam, north of the 
Brahmaputra, at least, as far east as the Darrang District. 
On migration it is often met with in the valleys of the Hima- 
layas, and occasionally at the lakes far in the interior. Thus 
Hodgson says that it is seen as a passenger, halting for a week 
or so to-rest in the valley of Népal in April and early in May, 
and again in the latter part of September and the earlicr por- 
tions of October. Mr. Young informs mec that. in Kullu, it ts 
