662 Baron R. Snouckaert van Schauburg on a [Ibis, 



Hirundo daurica erythropygia Sykes. 



Murray places the Indian lied-rumped Swallow amongst a 

 list which lie or his collector added to birds o£ ^ind. It was 

 obtained in November at Pultem. Hume apparently saw 

 the specimen, so that it was probably correctly named, but 

 like all the birds in this list it must be open to doubt since 

 in it appeared five species new to the Indian list which 

 I have ascertained in reality came from Bushire, hence 

 other localities may be mixed. This race, the resident one 

 in the plains, is, so far as I know, not resident in Sind, 

 though it is in Cutch and at Mt, Aboo ; stragglers might of 

 course wander into Sind. 



Hirundo daurica rufula Temm. 



On 18 November, 1919, at Karachi in a sunny corner of 

 the Sewage Farm, haunted in some years by Crag-Martins, 

 I saw two Red-rumped Swallows, one of which I obtained. 

 It is a bird of the year and compares well with similar 

 young of rufula from farther west; it is too pale on the 

 chestnut portions of the plumage and too long in the wing 

 (113 mm.) for erythropy<jia. It is rather shorter in wing 

 than most I'ufida, however it is not striated enough on the 

 breast and rump for the young of nipalensis. 



This is the first occurrence of this race in Sind and the 

 plains of India, but is not unexpected as it is known to breed 

 in northern Beluchistan. 



[To be continued.] 



XXXV. — On a Collection of Birds from Aclieen (Sumatra). 

 By Baron R. Snouckaert van Schauburg, F.M.B.O.U. 



Very little has, to my knowledge, been published on the birds 

 of the most northern part of Sumatra, the ancient Sultanate 

 of Acheen, for many years under Dutch rule. In fact, I 

 only know of Hume's paper in ' Stray Feathers,' 1873, 

 pp. 441-463, on a small collection brought together by 



