AND SPECIALLY THOSE OF THE THOUNGYEEN VALLEY. 149 



87.— Cotyle riparia, Lin. 

 89.— Cotyle sinensis, J. E. Gr. 



These two species, common round Maulmain in the cold 

 weather, have never been seen by me in the Thoungyeen 

 valley. 



102 fo's.— Cypselus infumatus, Sclater. 



Both at Kaukarit and at Meeawuddy this dusky little Swift 

 is common about the palm trees round the pagodas and 

 kyoungs. 



104.— Dendrochelidon coronata, Tick 



Messrs. Hume and Davison give this bird as rare, but it is 

 not really rare along the Thoungyeen valley from its source to 

 its mouth, though it is very difficult to shoot. 



105 quat.— Batrachostomus affinis, Bly. 



In February 1878, while encamped near the village of 

 Hpamee on the Bawthaloo choung in the Meplay valley, 

 a Karen brought me a bird that he had shot with a charge of 

 slugs at three yards distance ! Recognizing it is a Batrachos- 

 tomus of some kind, and therefore a rarity, as to my knowledge 

 none had as yet been procured in Tenasserim, I duly skinned 

 the rag of a thing. After that I hunted high and low for 

 others, but never saw the ghost of one. 



I subsequently submitted the above-mentioned specimen to 

 Mr. Hume, who very kindly sent me back the following note 

 on it : — 



lc The specimen of the Bairachostomus which you sent me, 

 is so terribly mauled about the back and wings, the whole of 

 the tertiaries and longer scapulars being wanting, that I cannot 

 pronounce certainly in regard to it. 



" The following are the dimensions of the skin : — Length, 85 ; 

 wing, 4*7; tail, 4 - 8 ; bill from gape, straight to point, 1*14 ; 

 width at gape, 1*27 ; tarsus, 0*52. 



" This specimen agrees very closely with Colonel Tickell's des- 

 cription* of a specimen obtained near Tounghoo, which the 

 Marquis of Tweeddale assigned to Batrachostomus affinis. 



* The following is Colonel Tickell's description, vide P. Z. S., 1877, 429:— "Head 

 upper back, and scapulars bright umber, shaded ferruginous on back and mingled 

 with greyish on scapulars, the whole vermiculated crossways, black ; outer webs of 

 two or three scapulars white, bordered with black ; tertials clouded brown, ferruginous 

 and grey, with black vermiculations ; wing-coverts rusty vinous, broadly vermiculated 

 black. Secondaries and primaries, outer webs chestnut-rusty, with broken narrow 

 bars of black; inner webs sepia; tips of primaries pale and mottled; tail 

 cinnamon-brown, shaded grey marginally, and vermiculated black and crossed with 

 five paler bars (not joining the shafts,) subterminal series (sic.) ; the bars are edged 



