356 /ir/!.V.\, ITS PEOPLE A. YD PltODUCTIOXS. 



night when all is still around, ami the early traveller is hurryiug on to reach his 

 destination before sunrise. 



I once picked np a Caprimulym lying dead in the road, evidently suffocated hy 

 spasm of the glottis, caused hy the fore logs of a large Mantis impacted therein, 

 ■which the bird had endeavoured, but failed to swallow. The curious thing was 

 that the bird had not been able to free itself, even under the pangs of suffocation, 

 from the insect which filled its mouth. 



BATHAcnosToiirs, Gould. 



Bill broad, depressed and strong. They resemble in their plumage the little 

 Scops-owls, and like them have a grey phase and a ruddy phase. 



B. HoDGSONi, Gray. Karen-ni at 6000. 



B. AFFiNis, BIyth. Malayan Peninsula, not certainly 



recorded as yet from Tenasserim. 



B. CASTAXEUs, Hume. 



Hume is not certain if this is not one sex of B. Hodffxoni, and entirely dissents 

 from Lord Walden's uniting it with B. affinis. For a lengthy disquisition of the 

 question, which requires more data for decision, see S.F. ii. p. 348, and vi. p. 53. 



Ftimili/ Hirundinidse. 



The swallows form a well-known and peculiar group of birds, comprising several 

 groups marked hy different habits of life and nidification. The ' common swallows ' 

 build saucer-shaped nests of mud, and lay white eggs spotted with red, all the other 

 groups laying white eggs. The House martins build globular nests of mud. The 

 Crag martins, saucer-shaped nests of mud. The Sand martins excavate holes in river 

 banks, and the Bepublicau swallows build retort-shaped nests of mud agglutinated 

 together literally in masses on cliffs almost as closely as bees do their ' comb.' 



niRUXDINIXiE. 



Pyan-thwa. 



H. RTTSTicA, L. India and Burma. 



H. gutfiiralis, Scop. 



//. gutturalis is a small race of the common European H. runtica, or chimney 

 Bwallow. On the West of India rustica is the species met with, whilst in Burma 

 all the specimens seem to belong to the smaller race guHuralis, both races blending 

 in India and being specifically inseparable (_S.F. vi. p. 41). 



H. TrxLERi, Jerdon. Thayet-myo. Karen-ni. 



H. Andamanensis, Tytler. Andaraans. 



Hume's remarks on this species (S.F. vi. p. 41) leave little doiibt that this is 

 a local race of IT. cahirica, in process of differentiation, so to speak, and already 

 arrived at the stage of demanding recognition sub nomitie propria. 



H. HORREOEUM, Bart. Toung-ngoo (Jide Walden). 



H. JAVANICA, Sparrm. Southern Tenasserim (migrant). 



H. riLiFERA, Steph. Martaban. 



H. NiPALENSis, Hodg. Martaban. Tenasserim. 



H. DOMicoLA, Jerdon. Andamans. 



H. STKioLATA, Tom. Karen-iii, 2000 to 3000 feet. 



This species depends on the authority of Lord Walden, B. B. p. 127. Hume 

 dissents and says, " The birds referred to, more probably belong to yipalcnuis or siib- 

 striolata. No one who has at all studied this group could talk of erythropygia as 

 harely separable from rufula ! The distinctions are pointed out S.F. v. p. 265 et ante." 



H. ERTTHROPYGiA, Sykes. Pegu. 



CoTYi.K RirAiuA, L. Thaton (Martaban). 



C. SINENSIS, Gray. Pegu. Tenasserim (whore rare). 

 C. ohscurior, Hume. 



