434 ON COL. TICKELL'S MS. " ILLUSTEATIONS OF INDIAN OENITHOLOGT." [1876. 



following number of the journal {t. c. no. 5, p. 451) Colonel TickeU described the bird again, 

 calling it Sibia picata ; and under this title it is described and figured ; and the plate is one of 

 the most valuable in his work. 



The Nightjars, Trogons, Broadbills, Swallows, Swifts, Bee-eaters, Rollers, Kingfishers, and 

 Ilornbills, under the general title Fissirostres, form the subjects of volume vii., and are repre- 

 sented on fifty-three plates. The first illustrates a species of Batracliostomus, obtained near 

 Tongu-ngoo [Tonghoo], Burma, and identified by Colonel Tickell with B. moniliger (Layard). 

 The figure very accurately represents B. affinis, Blyth, in bright chestnut plumage, a species 

 which can hardly be separated from B. moniliger. 



Caprimuhjus asiaticns is beautifully and most artistically figured under the title of C. mail- 

 rattensis, with which totally distinct Xightjar Colonel Tickell confounds the commoner sjiecies. 



From examples of male and female obtained in Borabhoom, near the northern limits of its 

 range, Ilarpactes fasciatus is well delineated, and on the succeeding plate the Javan Trogon, 

 E. oresmis, from specimens obtained in Tenasserim. 



Tenasserim is the radiating point of the Euri/hemidce. All the generic types, one or other 

 of which extends to the Himalayas, to the Indo-Chinese countries, the Malayan peninsula, and 

 the three great islands of Sumatra, Java, and Borneo, are to be found in that province and 

 Arracan *. Six of these species are figured from examples obtained in Tenasserim by Colonel 

 Tickell, who gives interesting accounts of their habits. 



None of Colonel Tickell's drawings surpass in beauty those of the Swallows ; and while the 

 Ibis, 1876, delineations of all six species are particularly graceful, that of Ilirundo domicola (javanica 

 Sparrm.) may be especially mentioned. 



As a record of the fact that Chelidon urhica occurs in Tenasserim, an example there obtained 

 is figured. Cotyle concolor and C. rupestris are taken out of Boie's genus and formed into a 

 separate genus, for which the title of Krimnochelidon is proposed — a generic division already 

 anticipated by Reichenbach, who entitled it Ptyonoprogne. 



The genus Lendrochelidou {Macropteryx) is retained among the true Swallows (and not, as 

 by most writers, among the Swifts). 



Seven species of Swifts are well represented by as many drawings. Among these are 

 AcantlnjUs caudacuta from Darjeeling, and A. sylvatica, from the type specimen, killed by 

 Colonel Tickell at Chilpil, Singbhoom, Nov. 30, 1835. A very good plate shows Collocalia 

 nidifica [francica, Gm.) breeding on rocks near Akyab, Arracan, and a male bird in the act of 

 flying. Colonel Tickell remarks, " I carefully compared a specimen I had shot at Darjeeling, 

 August 8, 1848, with a pair brought to me in Akyab, Jan. 9, 1852, and found them precisely 

 similar in plumage, and in dimensions also, within a minute fraction." The dimensions are then 

 stated ; and the differences are trifling. Interesting facts concerning this species aie related in 

 the letterpress. A good account and plate is given of Cypselus vittatus {pacijicus) as observed 

 in Tenasserim. 



The Bee-eaters and Rollers, which are nearly all figured, are followed by the Kingfishers — 



* E. ochromelas maj- be an exception ; but it is included by Mr. Blytk (B. Burma, no. 432). The Bornean form of 

 Cymbirhiinchiis macrorhi/nchus can hardly be considered a separate species. The Sumatran I'sarisoinus jisittactnus may be 

 sufficiently diffoteutiatcd firom P. dalhousice to constitute a distinct species. 



