ANTHROPOIDES VIRGO.
Anthropoides virgo, Linne.
Vernacular ITaniea. —[Karkarra, (Hindee) N. W. Pravinces ; Ghanto. Nepal;
Kúrkúrchi, (Mahrathi) Safara; Kallam, Deccan (of many) ; Karkoncha,
(Canarese) ; Parvuth-akee (Canarese), Mysore and Ncrlh oj Caimbatore District ;
Wada-koraka, (Telegu) j Shuck duruck, Cabul; ]
HE Demoiselle Crane is another species, of which the
Indian range is still very ill-defined. I am quite
unable to ascertain its limits towards the east and
north-west. To the south, I know of its extending
on the west to the southernmost portions of the
Deccan, not, however, occurring in the Southern
Konkan or on the Malabar Coast.
In the central portion of the Peninsula, Mr. Albert Theobald
writes, that he has only seen it in the neighbourhood of Collegal,
in the north of the Coimbatore District and northwards of this,
but that he has heard, from reliable persons, that it has occurred
as far south as Tinnevclli. Even if it does stray at times
further south than Collegal, it must (as Mr. Theobald has been
for many years shooting and collecting in all the southernmost
districts of the Peninsula and has never yet seen it there), be
an extremely rare visitant to this part of the Empire. To
Ceylon there is no record of its having ever wandered.
In both Mysore and the Nizam's dominions it does occur,
though it is probably, even in these, far from common.
On the east no one records it from any of the Madras Districts,
nor does Ball include it in his list from the " Ganges to
the Gddavari." It does not seem to occur at all in Lower
Bengal, or in the districts east of the Brahmaputra, or in any
part of Burma. But it certainly occurs in the Nepal and
Sikhim Tarais, and the Diiars, and as I gather from Colonel
Graham's remarks, in the valley of Assam, north of the
Brahmaputra, at least, as far east as the Darrang District.
On migration it is often met with in the valleys of the Himalayas,
and occasionally at the lakes far in the interior. Thus
Hodgson says that it is seen as a passenger, halting for a week
or so to rest in the valley of Nepal in April and early in May,
and again in the latter part of September and the earlier portions
of October. Mr. Young informs me that in Kullu, it is