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IX.— NOTES AT ALWAR. 
Although there is no zoological garden at Alwar, there is 
a very beautiful public garden, called the “Company Bagh,” 
in wliich there is a stone house containing three live tigers, 
a large cage with three black Himalayan bears, and, in the 
fine greenhouse, tanks with countless gold-fish. Further- 
more, in H.H. the Maharaja’s private garden, the “Mangel 
Bagh,” near the Lansdown Palace, is the very remarkable 
building knoAvn as the “ Tiger House” (which is described 
below) at present occupied by a fine pair of leopards. 
Quantities of pretty little striped Palm- Squirrels, Sciurus 
palmarum, about the gardens of Alwar, and in the 
country outside the city are very large numbers of Blackbuck, 
Aiitilope cervicapra : I saw a female antelope of this species 
wandering about the bazaars. In the evening many Flying 
Foxes, Pteropus medius^ are to be seen. 
All birds are protected in Alwar, and the results of this 
])rotection are beautiful. Not only are there very large num- 
bers of birds to be seen, but they are so easily seen, as they 
have confidence in mankind instead of fear ; in fact the Avild 
birds are almost tame. I was at Alwar from May 17 
to 19, 1913, and noted twenty -eight species of birds as 
being “common” there, besides Crows, Babblers, Bulbuls, 
King-CroAvs, Woodpeckers, Boilers, Bee-eaters, Kingfishers, 
Hoopoes, Parrakeets, Kites, Doves, and Pond-Herons, 1 
Avould specially mention the Myna-birds, Acridotheres trisils^ 
the Jungle Mynas, Aethiopsar fuscus, the Pied Mynas, 
Stiirnopastor contra^ the black Indian Robins, Thamnohia 
camhaiensis^ the Magpie- Robins, Oopsychus saularis, the 
Weaver birds, apparently Ploceus bengalensis, the great 
flocks of Blue Rock Pigeons, Columha livia or Cohimba 
intermedia, the Red- wattled Lapwings, Sarcogrammus indicus^ 
and especially the Peafowl, Pavo cristatus^ the cocks Avith 
lovely trains, which Avere eA^eryAA^ere, on the roads and on the 
roofs, literally in thousands. 
