ADDENDA ET COERIGENDA. 



Iktboduction. 



I withdraw the remarks on Page 2 concerning the tract over which 

 Maithili is spoken. In Champaran a form of Bhojpm-i is spoken, with a 

 strong Maithili tendency, but not sufficiently strong to entitle me to class 

 the language as a sub-dialect of the latter. We must therefore deduct the 

 figures for Champaran from the foot note, but at the same time we must add 

 the figures for the whole of South Munger and South Bhagalpiir, for the 

 Barh Subdivision of Patna, and for part of Piirniya, where subsequent in- 

 vestigations have shown me that Maithili in greater or less purity is 

 spoken. 



The corrected figures, therefore, for tlie foot note will run as follows. 



MuzaflParpiir ... ... ... 23,15,267 



Darbhanga ... ... ... 21,03,337 



hunger ... ... ... 18,16,894 



Bhagalpiir ... about ... - 20,00,000 



Araria Sub-division of Purniya ... ... 3,05,040 



Barh „ Patna ... ... 2,47,076 



Total, ... ... 87,87,614 



§ 5, This Grammar went to the Printer more than a year and a half ago. 

 When the manuscript was despatched, with the exception of Mr. Beames' 

 notes on the Bhojpuri dialect there was no other philological work from 

 which I could obtain any help regarding the Bihar dialects. Under the 

 cii'cumstances, I purposely avoided mentioning certain facts which I had 

 noticed, but which, mistrusting my own uncorroborated ear, I thoiight de- 

 manded consideration and reflection before stating. One of these, thanks to 

 Dr. Hoernle's Gaudian Grammar, has since become one of the commonplaces 

 of Eastern Hindi Grammar. I allude to the existence of the short vowels 

 e, 6, at, and ««, These vowels have no symbol in the alphabets of 

 Bihar, being represented like their long congeners as follows ; ^ e ov e, ^ p 

 or 0, ^ ai or ai, au or aii. The fact is, that just as the simple 



