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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part II Physical Science 1871

1871

A pair bred in my gaden at Bellary in the cross beam of a vinery and at Boiribay I found a nest in the dead branch of a tree close to the house. [...] I have seen and heard it in the Golconda zemindary and at Goodum in April at Saugor in June and within three miles of Kamptoe on the 15th of June ; a friend heard it at Chikalda on the 5th of Juno. [...] Terdon says that this fine thrush is found throughout the forests of Southern and Western India from near the top of the Neilg herries (6000 feet) to almost the level of the sea * * * ; but it is not found in any of the forests of the Eastern Ghats nor in Central or Northern India. [...] Both abound at Bangalore and Madras while culminatus is the only crow of the Noilgherries replacing his grey cousin at Kuliar the posting-stage at the foot of the Ktimir Ghat to which place and no further spiendenit had pentrated in 1870. [...] Whether the cause of this circumstance be climatic and due to the greater dampness of these hill tops I cannot say probably it may be ; but it is also probable that the animals thus found isolated once inhabited the plains of India and were driven by a change in the climate (which may have been in its turn caused partly by the destruction of the forests) to take refuge on the hills their pl

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Pages
153
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
Segment Pages Author Actions
On Indian and Malayan Telphusidæ Part I — By J. Wood-Mason Esq
201-215 The Honorary Secretaries view
Note on Colonel McMaster’s List of Birds from Nagpore &c.—By W. T. Blanford
216-217 The Honorary Secretaries view
Notes on Terrestrial Mollusca from the Neighbourhood of Moulmein (Tenasserim Provinces). With Descriptions of New Species —By Dr. F. Stoliczka
217-259 The Honorary Secretaries view
Description of Four New Species of Malayan Bats from The Collection of Dr. Stoliczka —By G. B. Dobson B. A. M. B. Asst. Surgeon II. M.’s British Forces
260-267 The Honorary Secretaries view
List of Birds Collected or Observed in the Wardha Valley and its Vicinity Near Chanda — By W. T. Blanford F. G. S.—C. M. Z. S.
268-277 The Honorary Secretaries view
Monograph of Indian Cyprinidæ (Prat II)— By Surgeon F. Day
277-336 The Honorary Secretaries view
Backmatter
i-xv The Honorary Secretaries view

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