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Dollah, which is near the latter. It occurs, but probably as a 

 seasonal visitant only, in many parts of Pegu and the plains 

 portions of Tenasserim, north of Moulmein. 



89. — Ootyle sinensis, J. E. Gr. 



Occasionally seen about the larger streams in the Western 

 and near the Southern hills. Common throughout the basin^ 

 especially about the capital and the Logtak lake. Only 

 very rarely met with in the Eastern hills. A fine adult male, 

 shot at Manipur town on the 23rd February, 1881, measured : — 

 Length, 4-55 ; expanse, 100 ; tail, 1-85 ; wing, S"? ; tarsus, 04 ; 

 bill from gape, 38 ; weight, 0"34oz. Legs and feet darkish 

 brown with a faint purplish tinge ; tarsi feathered in front on 

 the joint, bare elsewhere ; bill black ; irides brown. 



I met with this species occasionally in moderate-sized 

 communities all along the rivers of Sylhet and Cachar. From 

 the valley of Assam, I do not find it recorded, and I have as 

 yet received no specimens thence, but it almost certainly occurs 

 there. 



[Decidedly common in the Dibrugarh district, along the 

 larger rivers, where the banks were precipitous. During the 

 rains they migrate. — J. R. C] 



Godwin- Austen talks in his second list of this species breeding 

 in January at Shirshang in the banks of the Lumessary river, 

 but as he goes on to give dimensions — "Length, 12-|- inches ; 

 wing, 8| inches ; tail, 6| inches, &c," — it is impossible to say to 

 what species he referred. 



This species is found in Arakan, Pegu and Northern 

 Tenasserim. 



94. — Delichon nipalensis, Hodgs. 



I only once procured or saw this in Manipur, and that was 

 near Tankul-Hoondoong in the Eastern hills, where, on a 

 peak about 6,000 feet high, a small flock suddenly appeared 

 about us, hawking at a tremendous pace, and equally suddenly 

 disappeared, giving me only time to drop a single bird, a male, 

 which m.easured: — Length, 4-4; expanse, 10-2 ; tail, 1-8; wing, 

 3-65 ; tarsus, 0-45 ; bill from gape, 0-4 ; weight, 0-45oz. 

 Bill brown, paler at gape ; irides (shot out) ? brown ; tarsi and 

 toes fully feathered ; soles fleshy ; claws whitey-brown. 



According to the Tankuls who were with me small flights 

 of this species are occasionally seen in this locality, but are 

 more common in their hills further north. At the same time 

 I am very doubtful whether they really distinguish between 

 this species and Ootyle riparia and sinensis ; flights of the 

 former of which at any rate do at times, as already recorded, 

 appear high up on the JEastern hills. 



