414 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XII. 



The underparts consist of a very fine mottling of red, dirty white, and 

 sepia-brown, like a mixture of pepper, salt, and red pepper, on a dull plum- 

 beous ground-colour. 



It is worth while remarking the semi-divided condition of the nasals, and 

 the fact that one labial invariably enters the eye, usually the third, sometimes 

 the second, also the absence of post chin shields. Boulanger's work does not 

 mention these characteristics. 



F. WALL, Ca.pt., I.M.S. 

 Malakand, ZOth October, 1898. 



No. IV.— OCCURRENCE OP THE ALPINE SWIFT {CYPSELUS 

 MELBA) IN THE DARBHANGA DISTRICT, TIRHOOT. 



On the 9th and 10th of last month I saw four or five of the above species 

 flyino; near my indigo vats. They were quite close to me, and I could plainly 

 see that there was no white on the rump, and that the underparts were white. 

 Unfortunately, I had run out of ammunition, and so was unable to secure 

 specimens. I am, however, certain that I identified them correctly. 



C. M, INGLIS. 



Darbhanga, August, 1898. 



No. v.— BREEDING OF THE WHISKERED TERN (HYDROCHELI- 



DON HYBRIDA) IN THE DARBHANGA DISTRICT, 



TIRHOOT. 



I found numbers of these birds breeding here in one tank on the 2nd of 

 this month. My attention was first drawn to them by the birds flying down 

 at me, some of them nearly striking my hat. I sent in my syce, and he got 

 several eggs, an* found a number of nests in which there werenofggs. 

 Although there were two other tanks only a few yards away, no birds seemed 

 to b- breeding in them. The:nests were made of young paddy shoots with a 

 lining of dry straw. In one nest there was a sz^g-Ze very highly incubated 



egg. 



C. M. INGLIS. 



Dabbhanga, August, 1898. 



No. VI.— NOTE ON THE ORANGE-HEADED GROUND THRUSH 

 {GEOCICELA CITRINA, LATH.). 



This mornins; I shot a male of the above species, and, on examining it, 

 noticed several long hairs springing from the nape, in much the same way as 

 they do in the white-throated Bulbul (Crimger faveolus). Also the feathers on 

 the cheeks and sides of the chin have lengthened shafts of a black colour. I 

 can find no mention of either of the above facts in Oates' Vol. II of the " Fauna 

 of British India " series. Under Family Turclidce he mentions that in some 



