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Ghats close to the Dudsagar station on the Portuguese railway at all 

 seasons I have been there ; they seemed to fly in and out of some caves 

 in the cliffs above the station-master's house. I have never been able 

 to visit the place, and it is to be hoped someone at Castle Rock will 

 manage to do so and see if there are nests. April, I should think, 

 would be the most likely month. 



1073. Cypselus affinis, Gray & Hardw. 



Noticed occasionally about Karwar in the rains, and common about 

 Halyal. In the latter place large numbers breed under the bridges 

 near Alnawar and in the veranda of the forest bungalow in Halyal. 

 ]075. Tachoenis batassiensis, Gray. 



Found all over the district. Wherever a Borassus is found, there 

 are sure to be a number of these swifts. They however, I am sure, 

 sometimes breed on the supari palm, as I found them to do in Mysore, 

 as the bird is constantly seen in places where no " tar " trees are 

 found. 



1078. Centura indica, Hume. 



This fine spine-tail is, I believe, a permanent resident in Kanara, 

 and I have numerous notes of having seen them from January to the 

 end of May in many places above Ghats. During the rest of the 

 vear I have generally been on the coast or at all events below 

 Ghats, and I cannot tell whether at that season they are also to be 

 found above Ghats. I noticed a few flying round some castellated 

 rocks near Ulvi in Supa in the middle of March, and the villagers 

 declared they bred there in the rains. They are by far the fastest 

 flyino' birds I have ever seen, and must fly about twice as fast as 

 the Alpine swift ; indeed, sometimes a flock has passed over and is gone 

 before one has made up his mind to risk a shot at them. I shot four 

 with some twenty shots at Sirsi in April, 1894 ; all were males, and none 

 showed any signs of breeding. 



1079. Ch-Etura SYLVATICA, Tick. 



This pretty little spine-tail is distinctly local, but a few may be found 

 regularly in many places. They keep to the evergreen jungle and the 

 neighbourhood of dead " baini " palms. I have little doubt they breed 

 in holes in these, but I have never been able to prove it. At Manchi- 

 keri in the Yellapur taluka I came on a large flock flying out and in- 

 to the trunk of a huge tree, which divided into three large stems, two 



