on Dr. Jerdon's 'Birds of India.' 341 



commonly apply the name Chdmchiki to this Swift, by which 

 they also designate the smaller Bats. 



103. CoLLocALiA FUCiPHAGA (Thunb.) ; Wallace, P. Z. S. 

 1863, p. 384 {cf. Ibis, 1863, p. 323). 



Capt. Beavan informs me of the interesting fact that already 

 in the Andaman Islands this Swiftlet " takes to breeding inside 

 houses, preferring inner rooms, both on Ross and Chatham 

 islands*. A large Acanthylis was observed on Ross." This was 

 doubtless A. gigantea. 



I may here remark that the genus Podargus (vol. i. p. 191) 

 reverses the outer toe in perching, as is likewise observable in the 

 Owls. The supposed genus Otothrix is merely the adult phase 

 of certain Batrachostomi. Dr. Cabanis (Mus. Hein. ii. pp. 121, 

 123) refers the Podargina (and also the Passerine family Eurylce- 

 minee !) to his family Coraciidce ! [vide Mr. Wallace^s remarks on 

 Eurylamus, Ibis, 1861, p. 41). 



109. Caprimulgus albonotatus. 



Colonel Tytler endeavours to express the voice of this species 

 in writing (Ann. Mag. N. H. 1854, xiv. p. 174). 



110. Caprimulgus macrurus. 



Mr. Gould states that this bird is found in "Southern India" 

 (Handb. B. Austral, i. p. 100), — meaning the Indo-Chinese and 



collection of the Danish Missionary John, now in the Library of the 

 Asiatic Society, Calcutta, there is one of a very remarkable palm of this 

 species in Southern India, wherein the stem divides irregularly into 

 numerous heads, some ten or twelve in number, much in the manner of a 

 Pandatms. The African genua Hyphanie (comprising the Doum-palm of 

 Upper Egypt and Nubia) is a well-known branching form ; and a common 

 ramifying palm in India and Burma is the Phanix paludosa (figured in 

 Griffith's ' Palms '), inhabiting the Bengal Sundarbans, and especially 

 places covered by high tides, being only found near brackish water : a 

 few others are Imown. In the garden of a native gentleman, near Calcutta, 

 I saw a cocoa-nut palm which threw off many shoots or pseudo-branches 

 from the stem (like those of the South African date-palms, but never 

 the Pho&nix sylvestris of India). I called the late Dr. Falconer's attention 

 to the cocoa-nut palm here mentioned, and he had a figure taken of it. 



* A more decided case of a like change of habit in the West-Indian 

 Tachornis phcenicobia is noticed by Mr. March (cf. Ibis, 1864, p. 405). 



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