246 A SECOND LIST OF THE BIRDS 



85 bis.— Hirundo nipalensis, Hodgs. 



« Very common. — J. I." 



Several specimens killed near Dilkhushah, on the 19th and 

 21st March, and 10th of May, have been sent. 



85 quat. — Hirundo substriolata, Hume. 



" Common.— J. I." 



Two more very fine specimens, killed on the 20th of February 

 near Dilkhushah, have been sent since those first described. 

 I have already discussed this very fine large species (S. F., V., 

 264,) and have nothing now to add. 



87. — Cotile riparia, Lin. 



u Exceediugly common. — J. I." 



A female of the European Sand-Martin killed at Dilkhu- 

 shah, 15th April 1878. 



101 Us.— Cypsellus pacificus, Lath. 



" This Swift is very common when the weather suits it. I 

 have seen it in hundreds one afternoon, and perhaps not observed 

 it again for a week. It is most generally observed between 

 September and January. — J. I." 



A single specimen from near Dilkhushah obtained in Decem- 

 ber 1877. 



116.— Harpactes erythrocephalus, Gould. 



a This nestling is one of two, which my man was foolish 

 enough to blow to pieces when they were perched together 

 on a branch of a small tree. I have often seen the parent 

 birds near the place where these infants were murdered. — J. I." 



A nestling of this species, obtained on the 10th of June, is a most 

 curious looking little bird. The entire head and body above and 

 below is a sort of dull orange ferruginous, with the grey bases 

 of the feathers showing through more or less. Only the feathers 

 about the vent and the lower tail-coverts are nearly pure white. 

 The central tail feathers are dull chesnut, narrowly tipped with 

 black ; the next two on each side pure black ; the next three on 

 either side pure white, but black on the basal one-third on the 

 inner webs only. The wings are black ; all the coverts but the 

 primary greater and median coverts, are broadly margined 

 with orange or rusty buff, and the greater secondary coverts 

 exhibit traces of imperfect barrings of the same colour. The 

 primaries are very narrowly margined on their outer webs with 

 greyish white, and the later secondaries are freckled with the 

 same colour on their outer webs towards their margins.' 



