APPENDIX. 485 



Vol. Ill, p. 176. Ogilvie Grant has shown (Ibis, 1895, p. 461) that 

 typical Collocalia fucipkaya has the tarsi feathered, and is only 

 distinguished from the Himalayan C. brevirostris by slightly 

 smaller size, a charaster not of specific importance. Consequently 

 No. 1081, the Indian Edible-nest Swiftlet, will stand as C. uni- 

 color, and No. 1082 as C. fuciphaga. (See also Hartert, Ibis, 

 1896, p. 3(38.) 



Vol. Ill, p. 182. Caprimulgi. Hartert shows that the palate is not 

 schizognathous, but either segithognathous or in certain genera 

 desmognathous : Ibis, 1896, p. #61). 



Vol. Ill, p. 188. No. 1093, Caprimulyus macrurus. Hartert, Ibis, 

 1896, p. 372, agrees that C. atripennis as well as C, albonotatus must 

 be classed as subspecies of C. macrurus. He proposes to give 

 the name C. macrurus ambiyuus to the form from Burma, Assam, 

 and the Eastern Himalayas, which is intermediate between typical 

 C. macrurus from Java and the North-Indian C. albonotatus 

 (this is the bird described as C. macrurus by Jerdon and Hume), 

 and to distinguish the Nepalese and Western Himalayan race (a 

 small pale- coloured form with a wing only 7'2 long) as C'. macrurus 

 nipalensis. 



In Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. ix, p. 489, Davidson calls attention to 

 the difference between the eggs of C. albonotatus and C. atripennis. 

 He describes those of the latter, op. cit. vi, p. 331. His description 

 differs from that of Miss Cockburn, though it agrees fairly with 

 that of Colonel Legge (Gates in Hume's N. & E. 2nd ed. Hi, 

 p. 47). 



Vol. Ill, p. 196. No. 1099, Batrachostomus moniliyer in Canara : 

 Davidson, Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. ix, p. 489. This bird is common 

 in the province of Uva, Ceylon, below 2000 feet, and its peculiar 

 note, somewhat like " courroo, coorroo, coorroo ,^ ending with a 

 chuckle, may be heard every night : Butler, Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. 

 x, p. 297. Of B. hodysoni, numerous nests and eggs have been 

 taken in North Cachar : leaker, op. cit. x, p. 554. 



Vol. Ill, p. 243. No. 1133, Centropus benyalensis obtained in Ceylon : 

 Butler, Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. xi, p. 162. 



Vol. Ill, p. 270. No. 1156, Asio otus has been found breeding in the 

 hills above Gurais in Kashmir, at about 900U feet elevation, by 

 Lieut. B. A. G. Shelley, K.E. The eggs, four in number, 

 measuring 1'62 by 1'35, were on a platform of sticks, perhaps an 

 old crow's nest: Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. x, p. 149. 



Vol. Ill, p. 271. No. 1157, Asio accipitrinus has been taken in Ceylon 

 on several occasions recently : Butler, Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. x, 

 p. 284 ; xi, p. 163. 



Vol. Ill, p. 309. Mr. A. L. Butler writes to me that the call of the 

 Andamanese Ninox affinis is a loud " craw," something like a 

 Glaucidium's note, and quite different from that of N. scutulata in 

 Ceylon, which is a soft fluty dissyllable, as is also that of ^V. obscura. 



Vol. Ill, p. 345. No. 1208. The length of Hieraetus pennatus should be 

 20 inches, not 29. 



Vol. Ill, p. 348. No. 1210, Ictmaetus malayensis is found in the Malay 

 Peninsula and Islands. The statement that it is not found is a 

 misprint. 



Vol. II I, p. 389. The genus Buteo has occasionally, though very rarely, 

 been found in Burma : see p. 395. 



