56 Mr. W. Jesse on the 



the roof of some ball or outhouse. Ofteu inside great gate- 

 ways and such places numbers will be found cemented 

 together. The materials are feathers, straw, &c, worked 

 into a parchment-like substance by means of saliva. Eggs 

 two, rarely three, pure white and elongated. 



Average of 12 Luclmow eggs •86" X "56" 



Measurement of largest egg - 90" X "57" 



„ smallest egg *84" X '54" 



No. 1075. Tachornis batassiensis. Palm-Swift. 



This Swift is almost entirely confined to localities where 

 the toddy-palm is found. In the leaves of the palm the bird 

 breeds, but I have not as yet taken the eggs. 



No. 1091. Caprimulgus asiaticus. Common Indian 

 Nightjar. 



I have not often come across this bird. " The Common 

 Indian Nightjar is by no means so abundant here as C. albo- 

 notalus (C. macrurus). Indeed, I have rarely or never seen 

 it, except when the ' shades of evening ' have so far advanced 

 as to render shooting it next to impossible. It feeds, I think 

 «v preference, on the mud by the water's edge, where I have 

 often, when waiting for Geese, seen it flitting actively 

 about." — G. Reid. 



No. 1093. Caprimulgus macrurus. Horsfield's Nightjar. 



" The Large Indian Nightjar is fairly common and a 

 permanent resident. As many as twenty may at times be 

 flushed in some favourite spot, but, as a rule, it is found 

 singly or in pairs, generally in thick brushwood under the 

 shade of the trees, while it is also very partial to bamboo- 

 brakes and thick dhak- jungle. When flushed it usually flies 

 but a short distance and squats again, either on the ground 

 or on the low and spacious arm of some tree. Occasionally 

 it may be found resting during the day high up in thick 

 bamboos, and in clumps of these it probably breeds, though 

 I have never found its nest. But, in whatever tangled 

 thickets it may rest for the day, it sallies forth at dusk to 

 fields and open glades, where it may be seen flying noise- 

 lessly along, or feeding and shuffling about with great 



