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26o GANGETIC HINDOOSTAN.
alfo delighted with honey, fugar, and other fweets. Its motions
are not, as in' others of this genus, flow and languid, but mode-
rately lively; and it appears to have an habit of turning itielf
round and round every now and then, as if for amufement, in
the manner of a dog when lying down to fieep. It is faid to
have a propenfity to burrowing under ground, and that it was
at firft dug out of its retreat by thofe who difcovered it.
Bats. The fpecies of Bats are probably numerous on the great
peninfula ; thofe of Ceylon are noted at p. 202 of the preceding
volume. The great bats extend to all the hot parts, will fly
into the very bed Chambers, and entangle their claws fo ftrongly
into the hair of the fleepers, as not to be difengaged without
pain and difficulty.
„ The birds of Bengal itfelf are fo numerous, that I am dif-
couraged from the enumeration. Lady Impefs collection alone
furnifhed me with more than I dare attempt to defcribe. I muß
therefore fele£t only the raoft elegant, and the moft curious,
intermixing from other collections thofe which flrike my fancy.
Falcons. To the late 'Taylor White, Efq; I was indebted for the great
Indian Falcon, brown, with broad black bands on the wings.
Latham, i. tab. iii. To Mr. G. Edwards, 108, we are obliged
for the elegant black and orange hawk, not feven inches long,
yet trained for falconry. Abulfazel mentions that Äkbar ufed
the Mool-cheen, a little green blrd no bigger than a fparrow,
that could bring down a crane. Among others I find the Eu-
ropean gofhawk, Br. Z00L i. N° 52, and my blue variety of the
peregrine falcon. The Cbeela, Latbam, vii. 33, is a large fpecies
'found in India. The Criard is about the fize of a wood pigeon;
it
alfo delighted with honey, fugar, and other fweets. Its motions
are not, as in' others of this genus, flow and languid, but mode-
rately lively; and it appears to have an habit of turning itielf
round and round every now and then, as if for amufement, in
the manner of a dog when lying down to fieep. It is faid to
have a propenfity to burrowing under ground, and that it was
at firft dug out of its retreat by thofe who difcovered it.
Bats. The fpecies of Bats are probably numerous on the great
peninfula ; thofe of Ceylon are noted at p. 202 of the preceding
volume. The great bats extend to all the hot parts, will fly
into the very bed Chambers, and entangle their claws fo ftrongly
into the hair of the fleepers, as not to be difengaged without
pain and difficulty.
„ The birds of Bengal itfelf are fo numerous, that I am dif-
couraged from the enumeration. Lady Impefs collection alone
furnifhed me with more than I dare attempt to defcribe. I muß
therefore fele£t only the raoft elegant, and the moft curious,
intermixing from other collections thofe which flrike my fancy.
Falcons. To the late 'Taylor White, Efq; I was indebted for the great
Indian Falcon, brown, with broad black bands on the wings.
Latham, i. tab. iii. To Mr. G. Edwards, 108, we are obliged
for the elegant black and orange hawk, not feven inches long,
yet trained for falconry. Abulfazel mentions that Äkbar ufed
the Mool-cheen, a little green blrd no bigger than a fparrow,
that could bring down a crane. Among others I find the Eu-
ropean gofhawk, Br. Z00L i. N° 52, and my blue variety of the
peregrine falcon. The Cbeela, Latbam, vii. 33, is a large fpecies
'found in India. The Criard is about the fize of a wood pigeon;
it