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westernmost portion of Manipur, and I nowhere else met 

 with it in that state. 



I have it from N.-E. Cachar, and Godwin- Austen records 

 finding a few pairs breeding in June near Shillong. But first 

 he gives the wing at 5" I, which is smaller than that of any 

 specimen I have ever seen, in all of Avhich the wings have 

 varied from 5'25 to 5"8, 5'55 being the average. Secondly, 

 he says his is the first record of this species within the 

 Indian area, whereas Shillong can scarcely be classed as lying 

 within the Indian area, and I had long previously (S. F., II, 

 524) recorded a specimen from near Chanda, Central Provinces. 

 No doubt this species must occur elsewhere in British Burmah, 

 but we as yet have only observed it at the extreme south 

 of Tenasserim. 



A fine male, the only one I shot at the Jhiri, measured : — 

 Length, 61 ; expanse, 13"4 ; tail, 232 ; wing, 56 ; tarsus, 041 ; 

 bill from gape, 072; weight, l-3oz. Legs and feet pale 

 brownish purple ; bill blackish ; irides blackish brown. 



1016is.— Oypsellus pacificus, Lath. 



On the 16th of April, when on the hill above Aimole in the 

 Eastern hills, at an elevation of about 5,500 feet, I " saw at 

 least twenty times Gypsellus pacificus " (I quote from my notes), 

 " which passed me at from 60 to 80 yards time after time ; 

 dodge as I would 1 could never get within shot, but I 

 identified them certainly." 



I may add that I could not be sure whether there were only 

 a pair or more. On the top of a two-domed, densely-forested 

 hiil was a small valley or dip dividing the two domes, and 

 through this gap, every five or ten minutes, one or two of these 

 Swifts would dart. They kept this up for fully two hours, 

 during which I changed my post a dozen times in hopes of 

 getting a shot, but they never passed within 60 yards. After 

 that I waited another full hour, but they appeared no more, 

 and I never saw them again in Manipur until on the return 

 journey on the 31st of May. I watched a large flock of them 

 hawking on a hill side near Noongba in the Western hills 

 and again failed to get a shot. 



I have received this species from N.-E. Cachar, as also from 

 Sadiya, and from various localities in Pegu and Tenasserim ; 

 in the former of which it seems to be very generally distributed 

 and by no means rare. 



[102. — Gypsellus batassiensis, J. E. Gr. — Although 

 Mr. Hume omits it a few pairs of this species may be seen 

 hanging about the areca nut palms growing in the villages 

 that stud the open parts of the country in the Dibrugarh 



