176 Mr. W. R. Ooilvie-Grant on Birds 



young birds the underparts are white, but in Nos. 34 and 

 1201 there are indications of rufous feathers on the br.easfc 

 and under fcail-coverts and both these specimens, as well as 

 No. 42, have a more or less complete blackish band across 

 the fore-neck. 



" The Eastern Chimney-Swallow apparently occurs on 

 migration only, as it was seen intermittently* In Novem- 

 ber, great numbers were hawking over the open space 

 round our camp at Parimau for a few days, and then 

 suddenly disappeared. They were also seen on other 

 occasions, but never for any length of time."— C H. B. G. 



Hirundo javanica. 



Hirundo javanica Sparrm. ; Sharpe, Oat. x* p. 142 (1883) ; 

 id. & Wyatt, Monogn Hirund. i. p. 279, pi. 47 (1892). 



Chelidon javanica Roths. & flartert, N. Z. xx. p. 492 

 (1913). 



a. S- Wataikwa lliver, 19th Sept. 1910. [No. 1188, 

 G. C. S.-] 



Iris dark brown ; bill black ; legs dark brown. 



Total length in the flesh 135 mm. ( = 5| inches). 



In the Catalogue, p. 143, line 9, Sharpe describes the 

 under tail -coverts in this species as smoky-brown margined 

 conspicuously with rufous^ but, as a matter of fact, they are 

 margined with white. On the following line for " longer 

 tail-feathers " read " longer under tail-coverts " which have a 

 well-marked blackish subterminal patch. 



I'amily PITTID^. 



Mellopitta gigantea. 



Mellopitta gigantea Roths. Orn. Monatsb. vii. p. 137 (1899); 

 Roths. & Hartert, N. Z. xx. p. 491 (I9l3). 



a. ? . Camp 3, Utakwa River, 2500 ft., l4th Dec. 1912. 

 IC.B.K.'] 



The plumage of this specimen is entirely black. The bill 

 measured from the nasal opening to the tip is 24 mm. 

 (35 mm. from the feathers on the forehead to the tip) ; 

 wing 133 mm. ; tail 123 ; tarsus 56. On comparison, it will 



