196 Colonel Tytler on the Birds observed during 



20. ChjEtura caudacuta (Lath.) [97]. 1 saw about a 

 dozen flying over the grassy flats on the mountain-tops, on the 

 march from India to Putturnulla, in company with Cypselus 

 leuconyx. I shot a male and female ; there is no visible external 

 difference in the appearance of the sexes, which I determined 

 only by dissection. The flight of this bird is rapid beyond concep- 

 tion ; when wounded they utter a screeching sound like "churr'r, 

 churr^r, churr'r/' and when taken hold of they at once strike 

 their sharp claws into the flesh of the hand. 



21. HiRUNDo DAURicA, L. [85]. Common everywhere, and, 

 at heights, generally in pairs. 



22. HiRUNDO FiLiFBRA, Stcph. [84]. Not uncommon in 

 the valleys near streams, but at no great elevation. 



23. Halcyon smyrnensis (Lath.) [129]. I saw only one, 

 in the valley of the Shalla river. 



24. Alcedo bengalensis, Gmel. [134]. I saw only one, 

 also in the valley of the Shalla river. 



25. Ceryle guttata (Vig.) [137]. I saw very few on the 

 Tonse and Jumna river, and none at any elevation beyond the 

 height of the rivers. 



26. Upupa ? I saw two at a distance — one at Kandoe 



and the other near Thaena, but could not determine the species. 



27. Certhia HIMALAYAN a, Vig. [243]. Not uncommon at 

 elevations of from 5000 to 6000 feet. At Phagoo I saw a mother 

 feeding her two young : they were on the branch of a fir-tree ; 

 and almost every second the mother flew either on the side of a 

 mud bank covered with moss and ferns, or else to the stump of 

 a tree and returned to feed her impatient young with some 

 minute insect. 



28. Sitta himalayensis, Jard. & Selby [248]. Not un- 

 common at elevations of from 5000 to 7000 feet ; frequently in 

 company with Titmice and other small birds. On arriving at 

 Mussoorie I observed a mother feeding three well-fledged young 

 on the insects found about the bark of an Oak-tree. 



29. Sitta leucopsis, Gould [249]. I saw only one, at 



