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nian and beast ; but the people consider themselves safe against the at- 

 tacks of the panther and smaller cats, when armed with a good stout 

 stick. The Mus giganteus undermines buildings. Of the rest of the 

 wild animals it is not necessary to say more, than that they, like those 

 just enumerated, are most of them objects of the chase with the Mah- 

 rattas, who are capital horsemen, and many of them keen sportsmen. 



i^«V<^;s.— The birds are very numerous ; many of them .not less useful 

 to man, than agreeable from their plumage. Song-birds are, however, 

 rare. My catalogue contains 232 species of the several orders, families, 

 and genera. 



Raptor-es, — There are 13 genera of the first order Raptores, — Vultur 

 Indicus, Vultur Ponttcenanvs, Vultur Berigalensis, Neophron Percnop- 

 ierus, Haliaetus Ponticerianus, Circaetus hrachgdactyJus, Aquila chry- 

 sueta, Aquila bifasciata, H wmatornus Bucha, Accipiier DuJchunensiSi 

 Acciplfer Dussumieri, Asiur Hyder, Falco Tinnunculus, Falco Chic- 

 quera, Circus pallidus, Circus variegaius, Milvus Govinda, Otus Ben- 

 galetisis, Strix Javanica, Strix Indranee, Ketupa Leschenaultif and 

 N-octua Ifidica. Of the above order there are two new Accipiters, one 

 new species of Circus, one Milvus, and a Strix. The Neophron is the 

 Ractamah of Bruce, the sacred vulture of the Egyptians, and it is a most 

 useful scavenger, removing all offal matters. The golden eagle is the 

 same as that of Europe,, and so is the Falco Tinnunculus ; and the har- 

 riers are scarcely distinguishable ftom the European birds. The falcons, 

 hawks, and goshawks, are used by the natives in hawking. 



Insessores. — There are 53 genera, and 116 species of the order Inses- 

 sores. Few or none of these can be said to be useful to man, and only 

 two of the species are songsters : — Merops vtridis, Hirundo Jilifera, Hi- 

 rundo Jewan, Hirundo concolor, Hirundo erythropygia, Cypselus affinis, 

 Caprimulgus monticulus, Caprimulgus Asiaticus, Caprimulgus Mahrat- 

 tensis, Halcyon Smyrnensis, Alcedo rudis, Alcedo Bengalensisy 

 Ceyx tridactyla, Muscipeta Paradisi, Muscipeta Indica, Musci- 

 peta Jlammea, Muscipeta peregrina, Muscicapa melanops, Mus- 

 cicapa Banyamus, Muscicapa Poonensis, Muscicapa cceruleo- 

 cephala, Muscicapa picata, Rhipidura alhofrontata, Rhipidura 

 fuscoventris, Dicrurus Balicassius, Dicrurus coerulescens, Hyp- 

 sipetus Ganeesa, Collurio Lahtora, CoUurio erythronotus, Collurio Hard- 

 ivicMi, Lafiius Muscicapoides, Graucalus Papuensis, Ceblepyris Jlmbria- 

 tus, Ceblepyris canus, Oriolus galbula, Oriolus melanocephalus, Oriolus 

 Kundoo, Turdus macrourus, Turdus Saularis, ^urdus cyanotus, Petro- 

 cincla Pandoo, Petrocincla Maal, Petrocincla cinclorhyncha, Timalia 

 Malcolmi, Timalia Somervillei, Timalia CJiaiarcea, Ixos jocosus, Ixos ca. 



