518 Mr. G. L. Bates on the 



respectively, 18x12-5, 17-5 X 12-5, and 17x12 mm. In tlie 

 other were two similar eggs; one was broken, the other 

 measures 17 X 12 mm. 



Taciiornis parvus. 



Tachorins parvus brachijpterus Reichenow, Y. A. ii. 

 p. 38G. 



No. 4-149. S (testes small). Bitye, Oct. 1910. 



I had seen tlicse Palm-Swifts ahont the cocoa-nut trees at 

 the coast, but had never noticed them in the interior till last 

 year. During this time they were not infrequently seen 

 sailing to and fro about some palm-trees for a few miniites 

 at a time, and then disappearing ; none were ever shot or 

 even seen to alight. The specimen I at last obtained was 

 picked up one morning after a storm on a path bordered on 

 either side by tall wet grass. 



Pitta reichexowi. [K6'-afan.] 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1901, p. G21 ; 1905, p. 4C7. 



No. 4196. ? , breeding. Bitye, May 1910. Inside of 

 mouth and tongue orange (as in young birds, though this 

 individual was adult). It was snared with a noose fixed on 

 the ground in the forest, where it had been scratching. 



No. 4417. S (testes large). Inside of mouth and tongue 

 red ; iris dark reddish-brown ; bill blacky Avitli a red spot on 

 the culmen and a small one on the gonys ; feet greyish-white. 

 A brood-spot on the abdomen. 



This last bird was brought, along with a nest and two eggs, 

 from the big forest by a man who saw the nest on the branch 

 of a fallen tree, higher than his head. He climbed to it and 

 fixed a large Phrynium leaf over it and another under, in 

 such a manner that by drawing a noose he could enclose the 

 bird when it came back to the nest. Late in the evening he 

 drew the string, and the next morning went and took his 

 prisoner out, still alive. 



The nest was too much disarranged to be described ; it 

 was large, and composed mainly of dried forest leaves, with 

 some petioles and rootlets. 



