192 NOTES ON SOME TKNASSERIM BIRDS. 



Deputy Conservator of Forests, Dr. Slym's house. He 

 kitully sent it over to me : and as the bird would not eat I 

 |M)isoned it with cyanide of potassium and prepared the skin. 

 Unfortunately, however, it was left for the night on the top of a 

 book-shelf, and a vile rat gnawed off both feet. 

 Both specimens were captured at Moubnein. 



84. — Hirundo filifera, Steph. 



I identified, but failed to secure, specimens of this beautiful 

 Swallow at Kamanorla rapids on the Thoungyeen River. In 

 July 1879 I found them common about the paddy fields near 

 Kamaulai on the Salween, and secured a few specimens. 



I only noticed them for a day or two, and then they passed 

 on westward. Wings of the three specimens obtained measure 

 4' 12, 4'40, and 4'50 respectively. 



? 85— Hirundo erythropygia, (?) Sykes. 



It is doubtfully that I enter three specimens of a Swallow 

 obtained at Kaukaryit in the beginning of May, under the 

 above name. 



There were large flocks of them evidently migrating, l)ufc 

 very wary, never letting me come np closer than 5Q or 60 

 yards. 



87.— Cotyle riparia, Lin. 

 89.— Cotyle sinensis, J. E. Gr. 



Both these Sand Martins are common iu the cold weather round 

 Moulmein. 



102 his. — Oypsellus infumatus, Sclat. 



Occurs wherever the palm tree (Boi'axsus flahelliformis) 

 has been planted. In April 1878, I climbed up one of these 

 and found four nests, identical with those I have taken of its 

 near ally, G. hatassiensis, in India, and placed in the same posi- 

 tion on the under side of the frond of the palm. Unfortunately 

 I was too early for eggs. 



104. — Dendrochelidon coronata, Tick. 



I procured two specimens at Laidawgyee on the upper por- 

 tion of the Thoungyeen River. 



118.— Merops philippinus, Lin. 



In March 1877, I found large parties of this Bee-eater breed- 

 ing in the sandy banks of the Salween at Shwaygoon. It is 



