A LIST OF THE BIRDS OF PEGU, 183 
44,—Scops lettia, Hodgs. (75.) 
A very abundant species round Pegu and Kyeikpadein, 
and probably generally distributed throughout the province.* 
45.—Carine pulchra, Hume. (76 quat.) 
Abundant from Thyetmyo to Prome for a distance of 10 
or 15 miles from the Irrawaddy. 
46.—Glaucidium cuculoides, Vig. (79.) 
Found abundantly throughout the province. It comes out 
some time before sunset, aud remains out till late in the 
morning. 
47.—Ninox lugubris, Tick. (81.) 
I gather from Mr. Hume’s remarks (S. F., VI, p. 40) that 
the Pegu birds are not his burmanica. In this case, allowing 
the distinctness of all the races of this bird, the Pegu one 
will be lugubris.f 
This Hawk Owl is very common in every part of Pegu. 
48.—Hirundo rustica, Lin.t (82.) 
Extremely common throughout the year in all parts of the 
province. It does not, however, appear to breed here. 
49.—Hirundo horreorum, Bart. (82 ¢er.) 
Judging from what Mr. Dresser says about the different 
races of Swallow in his article on Hirundo rustica (B. of E., 
part XXXIX) J have little doubt but that tyélert? is a 
synonym of the above.§ Writing of these two forms he 
says :— 
“Should it prove from an examination of a series of speci- 
mens that it (¢ytleri) does not have the dark band continuous 
* Add 75 quint.—Scops lempiji, Horsf. 
One specimen from near Rangoon clearly belongs to this species by its completely 
unfeathered toes. Lettia is no doubt the common Pegu bird, but I have seen two 
specimens from Upper Pegu that were quite intermediate between the two species, 
besides this one from Lower Pegu which is lempiji, pur et simple —Ep., 8. F. 
+ Yes; I find all my Pegu specimens are /ugubris.—ED., S. F. 
{ But note that all the Pegu birds I have seen belong to the smaller race, guttu- 
ralis, Seop.—Ep., S. F. 
§ I cannot say that I am disposed to agree as yet. It is a great pity Mr. Oates 
did not himself carefully compare a series of adults of the two forms. Had he 
done so, and pronounced them identical, I should have had nothing further to say, as 
I know how careful his work is. But I compared some score of adult ¢ytleri with 
four adult horreorum kindly lent me, and they seemed to me to differ perceptibly. 
Of course they are very like each other, quite the same type of bird, but I came 
to the conclusion that they were distinct and immediately distinguishable, I regret 
that before returning the birds I did not note the differences, and so many years 
have passed that I have quite forgotten wherein I supposed the differences to 
exist, but I am very careful in making comparisons, and I cannot but believe that 
valid differences do exist,—Hp., 8. F, 
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