071 some Burmese Birds. 459 



155. Lyncornis cerviniceps. 



This fine Nightjar is plentiful in the Pegu Yoma hills, 

 where I obtained a considerable series during a march from 

 Thyetmyo to Tonghoo. Whenever the camp was pitched on 

 a cleared place of any size in the jungle, they were sure to be 

 seen at dusk. 



163. ACANTHYLIS GIGANTEA. 



The specimens which Major Lloyd sent to Lord Tweeddale 

 were obtained in the Karen-nee hills, far beyond the British 

 boundary. I have never seen this Swift in the Tonghoo 

 district. 



171. CORVUS SPLENDENS. 



Corvus insolens, Hume (S. F. ii. p. 480). 



The common Burmese Crow seems to me to have every right 

 to specific distinction; but many ornithologists, Mr. Blyth 

 and Lord Tweeddale among others, have considered it merely 

 a melanoid race of C. splendens. 



174. Dendrocitta himalayensis. 



I obtained two eggs of this species at an elevation of 4200 

 feet in the Karen hills on the 16th April 1875. 



The eggs are described by Mr. A. O. Hume at page 424 

 of his 'Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds."" 



This species is universally distributed in the hills. The note 

 sounds as if the bird first cleared its throat and then whistled 

 a long note through its nostrils. 



175. Crypsirhina varians. 



Common at Tonghoo and Rangoon. It is very fond of 

 sitting on the telegraph-wires or on the dead branch of a tree, 

 from which it darts at insects like the Bee-eaters. 



The irides are pale blue. 



176. Crypsirhina cucullata. 



Having never in the course of two years^ careful observa- 

 tion met with this bird in Burma to the eastward of the Pegu 

 Yoma range, I was under the impression that it did not 

 cross that range, but I find a skin sent by Major Lloyd from 

 Tonghoo in Lord Tweeddale's collection. This specimen. 



