60 Notes on various subjects. [No. 9, new seeies. 



Spur short. 



Spur the length of lower sepal. 

 Leaves glabrous cordate, lobes 



overlapping /. scapiflora .. Neilgherries 7 to 



8000 feet. 



Leaves hairy above, cordate, lobes 



distant . . . . , /. modesta. . . . Neilgherries, She- 



vagherries, Ana- 

 mallay 5 to 7000 

 feet. 



Spur much shorter than lower se- 

 pal. 



Upper sepals crenated /. crenata . . . . Anamallay hills 



5000 feet. 



Upper sepals not crenated, spur, 

 a small knob at the back of se- 

 pal /. Akka Anamallay hills 7 



to 8000 feet. 



Lower of compound petals entire. 

 Spur long, incurved, twice the 



length of petals, gracilis. . . .Anamallay hills 



5000 feet. 



VIII. Notes on various subjects. By Lieut. H. P. Hawkes, 

 Sub Assistant Commissary General. 



No. 3. Ornithology. — On a method of constructing a portable 

 aviary. 



To those who are fond of observing the habits and instincts of 

 birds, a portable aviary is a great desideratum. Birds shut up in 

 cages a few inches square are neither as healthy, nor as interest- 

 ing as when their abode can be made to assimilate more nearly to 

 their haunts in a state of nature. The aviary, the construction of 

 which I am now about to describe, has at one time contained as 

 many as 64 inmates of various species, all of which kept in full 

 health and feather. Its first inhabitant is still alive having occu- 



