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eggs of forty-two -species, complete the illustrations. The 
notices of species, of which the letterpress mostly consists, 
may be divided under two heads—descriptions and accounts 
of those species known to Colonel Tickell, and descriptions. 
of species unknown to him and copied from other authors. 
On these last I do not propose to observe; but I will endea- 
vour to give a general idea of those parts of the work which 
_ are original. Want of space prevents my doing justice to all 
the plates, or to the many interesting accounts of habits 
which render the work so valuable. Indeed, if I only succeed 
in drawing the attention of ornithologists to the work itself, 
my principal object will have been attained. It is a sad 
reflection that ill health prevented so much patient in- 
dustry, so much unostentatious labour, so much artistic skill, 
so much enthusiasm in the good cause, so great a fidelity to 
nature, from being rewarded with that universal approbation 
publication would undoubtedly have secured. 
The first two volumes embrace respectively the Raptrores 
Drurni and the Raprores nocturni. On forty-one plates, 
contained in volume 1., are depicted the better-known Indian 
and Burman species of Accipitres; but, with the exception of 
Limnaéius.kienert and Falco peregrinator, none of the rarer 
forms are delineated. Six species of Vultures are admirably 
figured. Otogyps calvus is stated to occur as commonly in 
Arracan and Burma as in Central India and the Madras Pre- 
sidency, Gyps indicus to be common in Burma, and Gyps 
bengalensis spread all over that country. 
Aquila imperialis (heliaca), 9 ad. and young in its third 
year, both from Bengal, constitute the first two plates be- 
longing to the Eagles. An adult male of Aquila nevia, Gm. 
apud Jerdon (B. Ind. no. 28), from Daulan, Tenasserim, is 
figured ; and the species is stated to be not uncommon in 
suitable localities in that province. The next plate is entitled 
Aquila fulvescens? and a good plate of the Hmorungee (M- 
saétus fasciatus) feeding on a Black Partridge is followed by 
one containing two figures of the Limnaétus niveus (T.), apud 
Jerd. (B. Ind. no. 34), in plumage which Colonel Tickell cha- 
racterizes as that of the third or fourth moult. The one is 










