22 Major H. H. Hariagton on the 



between tlie eggs of O.ferrea from India and China, the 

 latter agreeing with eggs from Burma. 



All the nests I have found were in holes in banks, a 

 favourite breeding place being on the side of the road-cuttings. 

 The nests are made almost entirely of grass. The eggs are 

 a pale hedge-sparrow blue, generally spotless, like those of 

 0. jerdoni, a few having faint indications of minute red 

 specks. 



Passer flaveolus. 



Passer flaveolus Blyth ; Oates, Fauna, ii. 1890, p. 242. 



The Pegu or Phongyi Sparrow, as it is often called 

 from its yellow breast, has its stronghold in the dry zone 

 of Upper Burma and the southern Shan States, and is 

 sparingly found down as far as Rangoon ; I did not meet 

 with it in the Upper Chindwin or Bhatno districts. It is 

 chiefly a jungle sparrow, a few pairs being found round 

 houses. It starts building operations early in March, 

 taking advantage of any convenient hole in trees or buildings. 

 I have taken their eggs from "the inside of old nests of 

 Munias {Uroloncha punctulata) . The nest, when self-built, 

 is of the ordinary sparrow type, and three is the usual 

 number of eggs laid, though I once took a nest containing 

 five. These are very like those of a Tree-Sparrow but are 

 smaller and a good deal paler in colour. 



Cypselus pacificus cooki. 



Cypselus pacificus cooki Harington, Bull. B. O. C. xxxi. 

 1913, p. 57. 



The only place where I have met with this Swift, is in the 

 Goteik Gorge, on the Maymyo-Lashio railway-line, in the 

 northern Shan States *. It is probably resident, as I have 

 seen it there both in March and June, and during the 

 latter month it was nesting in the caves, which form a 

 natural bridge under which the river flows, and over 



* In a letter i*eceived from Mr. J. P. Cook he states that he has 

 recently discovered some new caves about 30 miles north of Goteik where 

 these Swifts are to be met with in thousands. 



