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more or less of their terminal portions. The cheeks and ear 
coverts are a dull rusty buff, sometimes very ferruginous, and 
generally darker shafted, at any rate towards the tips. 
One very young bird has the whole of the upper parts ver 
similar to the lower parts, each feather with a narrow blackigh 
brown shaft stripe; only two or three feathers of the head, 
«nd afew of the scapulars with broad dark brown centres as 
in the adult. 
As pointed out by Mr. Sharpe (Cat. IT, 4). both flavines and 
javanensis are distinguished at once from ceylonensis by the 
absence of the hair-line transverse bars on the lower surface, 
which give these parts in ceylonensis a vermiculated appearance, 
while from flavipes, the present species is at once distinguished 
by its smaller size, the wing probably never exceeding 14:5, 
while in flavipes it probably never falls short of 18 inches.— 
AO Hs] 
81.—Ninox scutellatus, Raffles, apud Sharpe, 
I found this species abundantly amongst the clumps of trees 
and thin jungle near the shore at Elephant Point, where they 
appear to feed principally upon a species of crab, Ocypode 
platytarsis, which occurs in immense profusion upon the lands 
in that locality. 1 found the debris of these crabs in the 
stomachs of nearly all those which I examined. There does 
not appear to be any important difference in size between 
the two sexes. The following are the dimensions of six speci- 
mens recorded in the flesh :— 
Length, 11°5 to 13°5; expanse, 24°75 to 28 ; wing, 8:2 Be 8-7; 
tail from vent, 5 to 5°90; tarsus, 1 to 1°25; bill from gape, °9 to 1: id 
The irides were bright yellow; cere, dark slaty green ;_ bill, 
dusky black, mar cined with greyish; legs and feet, dusky 
yellow ; claws, horny brown. 
[I have adopted Mr. Sharpe’s nomenclature for these speci- 
mens, but as fully explained in my Travancore paper, I do not 
consider these Burmese birds to be the true seutel/atus. Rafl— 
AS Ov ES] 
82.—Hirundo rustica, Lin. 
This was the only Swallow I met with, and it occurred in the 
greatest abundance everywhere. At Elephant Point along 
the shore vast swarms were always present, roosting at night 
on the sands a little above high water mark. “Male birds 
measure somewhat more than females. The following is a 
resumé of the dimensions of both sexes recorded in the flesh :— 
Males.—Length, 5°75 to 6:3; wing, 4°45 to 4°75; tail from 
vent to endof outer feathers, 2°75 to 3°5 ; to end of mid feathers, 
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