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Show 1871.] ON THE RAPTORIAL BIRDS OF INDIA. 675 Two specimens, 3| and 4 inches long (nos. 134 and 357), from the Godeffroy Museum ; they were obtained at Port Bower and Port Mackay (N.E. Australia). GEOTRIA ALLPORTI. (Plate LXX.) Entirely black; skin with numerous transverse folds. Gular pouch large. The two middle teeth of the maxillary lamina are small, pointed, many times smaller than and entirely disconnected from the lateral, which are of a triangular shape and finely serrated on the inner margin. Mandibulary lamina very low, denticulated. Suctorial teeth in numerous series, rather distant from one another, unicuspid; only those nearest to the mouth somewhat larger, the others small. Form of the suctorial disk as in G. australis. Distance between the two dorsal fins less than the length of the first. Tasmania, from fresh water. One example, 13 inches long, has been presented by Morton Allport, Esq. 2. Notes on the Raptorial Birds of India. By A. ANDERSON, F.Z.S. [Received October 23, 1871.] I returned to India in October last, after a furlough of eighteen months, and through the kindness of m y friend Mr. W . E. Brooks, of Etawah, who had a bird-skinner in readiness for me, was enabled to renew m y favourite study immediately after m y arrival at Futtehgurh. The following notes refer to the districts of Cawnpore, Etawah, Futtehgurh, Mynpoory, and Eta, or that portion of the Doab situated between the first-named district and Allygurh,-a country through which m y duties required me to travel during the cold-weather months of 1870-71, viz. from November to 15th of April. The arrangement and nomenclature followed is that adopted by Dr. Jerdon in his ' Birds of India;' and the numbers used are the same as in that work. In some cases I have had recourse to the corrected synonyms as pointed out in Blyth's 'Commentary,' and published in ' The Ibis.' 1. VULTUR MONACHUS, Linn. (The Cinereous Vulture.) This magnificent Vulture, though met with on several occasions in small parties of twos and threes, can hardly be said to be a common bird in this part of the country. It is a cold-weather visitant, arriving in November, and leaving again in March for its breeding-haunts. O n two occasions a pair of these Vultures allowed me to ride circuitously to within 40 yards of them, when engaged on a dead bullock, in company with Gyps bengalensis and G. indicus. On another occasion, one that had been well gorged on a human body, on the edge of the Cawnpore branch canal, allowed m e to approach behind the bank to within 10 paces. |