148 ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF TENASSERTM 



the wood with no pretence to a nest. The seven eggs taken 

 vary from 115 to 1*29 in length, and T07 to 112 in 

 breadth. 



79.— Glaucidium cuculoides, Fig. 



The commonest Owl ; found everywhere. 



80.— Glaucidium brodiei, Burton. 



Generally, but locally, distributed in the forests of the higher 

 hills, not perhaps usually descending much below an elevation 

 of 1,500 feet. In the Thoungyeen it was excessively common 

 in the evergreen forest, about the village of Gatai on the 

 Hteepoyo choung, in the Meplay valley. I have heard it 

 eallino- both by day and night, its call being like that of 

 S. pennatus, with the two last notes inverted thus, whoo, whoo- 

 hoo, whoo, and perhaps more bell like. 



81 ter.— Ninox burmanica, Hume. 



At Maulmain and in the dry jungles on the Yoonzaleen 

 choung, this bird is excessively common. In the Thoungyeen 

 valley however, except just about the large frontier town of 

 Meeawuddy, it is rare. 



A male, in my collection, has the following measurements 

 taken in the flesh attached to it : — 



Length, 11-70; expanse, 27*5 ; wing, 8'4 ; tail from vent, 4"9 ; 

 tarsus, 1*0 ; bill from gape, 1*15. 



Cere and bill greenish horny ; irides bright yellow ; feet 

 lemon yellow ; claws horny. 



82 bis.— Hirundo gutturalis, Scop. 



Very common everywhere. In the Thoungyeen valley I have 

 shot them from October to February. 



84.— Hirundo filifera, Steph. 



I have nothing to add to my former note concerning this 

 species, except that at the Kamaukla rapids I again saw a few 

 of them this year. 



85 bis.— Hirundo nipalensis, Hodgs. 



The three specimens of the Swallow that I entered doubt- 

 fully under erythropygia (vide S. F., Vol. VIII., p. 192) 

 have been identified by Mr. Hume as the above. 



I have never seen any of this species in the Thoungyeen 

 valley. I may remark that my specimens are very markedly 

 striated on the under surface. 



