470 A FEW ADDITIONAL NOTES ON 
I think they had nests, but the place they frequented was too 
inaccessible to make certain. 
100.--Cypsellus affinis, J. #. Gray. 
These birds were not uncommon at Pittur and Kukal, but 
I did not see them anywhere else. 
*103 —Collocalia unicolor, Jerd. 
I saw them in large numbers in March flying about over 
the lake at Kodikanal and got a couple, a male and female. 
I found them breeding in a cave near the pillar rocks in 
June, but could not get at any of the nests. 
104.—Dendrochelidon coronata, Tick. 
I found this bird pretty common on the slopes and at 
Pulungi, where I obtained a male and a female. I found a 
nest in the Pittur valley on the 7th April. My attention 
was first directed to it by seeing the male sitting on what 
appeared to be simply a small branch; but on looking at 
it with my glasses could just make out the nest. It did 
not look any larger than a_ five-shilling piece. The bird 
was sitting across it at right angles to the branch, which 
helped to hide it. I got it down with much difficulty by 
cutting the branch. It contained one egg of a glossless 
white, an eiongated oval, the same at both ends and not 
at all like a Swift’s egg. It was much incubated. The nest 
was of a few bits of bark and feathers gummed on to the 
branch, and a sort of gum from the tree itself had been 
used. There were several more birds about in some high 
trees, but I could see no more nests. 
*108.—Caprimulgus kelaarti, Biy. 
A common bird, especially at Pulungi and Pittur. At the 
latter place they were a perfect nuisance, several collecting 
round the camp every evening directly it got dusk, and keeping 
up their monotonous cry more or less till the morning. 
Two eggs of a very pale salmon color, spotted all over, 
were taken off a bare slab of rock below Pulungi, which 
I think must have been this bird’s, as I never saw any other 
species there, but of course it is impossible to tell. 
117.—Merops viridis, Zin. 
119.—Merops swinhoii, Hume. 
Saw several of these birds in the Pittur valley. 
