444 BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 



Burmese list. Having no specimens which I can conveniently examine at 

 the present moment, I give Dr. Jerdon^s description of this Swallow : 

 f( Above glossy black, with some whitish edges to the dorsal feathers ; 

 crown dark rufous rump brownish ; beneath white, with black mesial 

 streaks to the feathers of the throat and breast ; the under surface of the 

 wings pale brown ; tail slightly furcate, with a small whitish spot towards 

 the tip of the inner web of each feather. Length 4*5 inches, wing 3' 5, 

 tail 1-75.-" 



Mr. Shopland found abont ten nests in April under a bridge; some 

 contained young birds, others fresh eggs. The nests were composed of mud 

 and lined with grass, casuarina-leaves and feathers ; the greatest number of 

 eggs in any one nest was four, and they were white speckled with two 

 shades of brown, chiefly round the larger end. 



369. ARTAMUS FUSCUS. 



(Vol. i. p. 396.) 



Mr. Shopland found two nests in Arrakan at the end of April. Both 

 were placed in cocoanut-trees close to the trunk and just below the stalks 

 of the lowermost leaves. The nests were made of fibre. 



418. CAPRIMULGUS MACRURUS. 



(Vol. ii. p. 20.) 



Mr. Shopland is probably the first naturalist who has found the nest of 

 this Nightjar. He writes : " On 20th March, 1880, I found an egg of this 

 bird on an island off the Borongo ; it was on the bare ground amongst a 

 lot of dead leaves and under a small bush. I should not have discovered 

 it had not the bird flown away hurriedly at my approach. A month later 

 (27th April) I found another egg amongst the small scrub-jungle on the 

 sea-beach at Akyab ; this I discovered in the same manner as the former 

 one. Both eggs are of a very light cafe-au-lait colour clouded with light 

 purple ; the colour reminds me of a bruise nearly healed. They have a 

 slight gloss, and measure 1*21 and 1*13 inch in length by *9 and *85 in 

 breadth respectively." 



502. EUDYNAMIS MALAYANA. 



(Vol. ii. p. 119.) 



Mr. Shopland states that the Malayan Coel in Arrakan lays in April and 

 May, frequently depositing two eggs in the same Crow's nest. 



