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is claimed may with some degree of reason he looked upon as distinctly, 
though indirectly, introduced by wind.* 
The species for which this mode of introduction is conceivable are 
given below. That many of them must be introduced species their pre¬ 
sence in Narcondam and Barren Island testifies ; it is therefore, as regards 
these, somewhat on the principle of exclusion that they are referred to 
this class, and for some of them, such as Ahrus preccLtovius, it is doubtful 
if it be not rather the sea that is responsible for their appearance. 
Table XXIIT. Species perhaps introduced by seed- and grain-eating birds. 
Species. 
Africa. 
s. 
a 
a 
H-1 
Indo-China. ’ 
> 
3IA. 
g 
Australia. 
Polynesia. 
America. 
Cyclea peltata 
X 
X 
X 
Abrus precatorius 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
Abrus pulchellus 
* 
X 
X 
X 
— 
Mucuna prnriens 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
5. Acacia pennata ... ... 
X 
X 
X 
X 
_ 
Albizzia Lebbek ... ... ... 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
Albizzia procera 
— 
X 
X 
X 
* 
Ipomsea Turpethum ... 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
Pollia zorzogonensis var, ... ... 
— 
— 
[x] 
X 
— 
— 
10. Commelina obliqua ... ... 
— 
X 
X 
X 
[Aneilema ovatum] ... 
— 
X 
X 
— 
Panicum colonnm ... ... ... 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
Panicum Helopus 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
Panicum javanicnm ... 
— 
— 
rx] 
X 
— 
— 
* 
15. [Panicum ciliare] 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
[Ischmmum ciliare] ... 
— 
X 
X 
X 
X 
— 
— 
[Eleusine indica] 
+ 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
[Dendrocalamus strictus] 
** 
X 
X 
* That there is nothing extravagant in claiming this as a possible means of 
introduction, the following passage (which refers, as it happens, to one of the 
islands under discussion), will sufficiently prove :—“ Mr. Hawkins told us that when 
“ the storm w'as over ************ 
“ every hollow of the island was tenanted by hundreds of numbed or wounded 
“ .sea-birds of all descriptions (such as he had never seen near the island before or 
“ since) so terrified or exhausted that he picked up or took home several of them to 
“ the light-house to show to his wife. Mixed with these were a certain number 
“of pigeons, parrots, and other land-birds, but the great majority were Petrels, 
“ Terns, Whale-birds and such like sea-fowl with which his experience as a sailor 
“in southern seas had made him familiar. Most of these birds ultimately recovered 
and left the island, but many of them hung about it for weeks, and for many 
days remained so tame that they would not move from the ground or the rocks, 
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