mineral springs. It Tvas flying over the jungles in large flocks, towards the close of the 

 rains and during the cold Aveather. Mr. AVvatt visited the Painjeet valley in the Hima- 

 layas about the middle of March, but did not see anything of this species. Major 

 Bingham informs him that it was too early in the season. Mr. W. T. Blauford found 

 this Martin tolerably common in the Tista valley, between Chungtau and Tamlung, 

 often hunting in company with Collocalia nidifica. None were seen above aljout 5000 

 feet elevation. 



Mr. Hume has given the following account of the species in Mauipur, and he has 

 also summarized the records of Colonel Godwin- Austen. Unfortunately tlie Manipur 

 specimen procured by Mr. Hume was no longer in his collection when transferred to 

 England, having been eaten by a rat. 



" I only once procured or saw this in Manipur, and that was near Tankul-Hoon- 

 doong in the eastern hills, where, on a peak about 6000 feet higli, a small flock suddenly 

 appeared about us, hawking at a tremendous pace, and equally suddenly disappeared, 

 giving me only time to drop a single bird, a male, which measured : — Length J.--1 ; 

 expanse 10"2 ; tail 1-8 ; wing 3"65 ; tarsus 0'45 ; bill from gape 0'^ : weight 0"j<5 oz. 

 Bill brown, paler at gape ; irides (shot out) ? brown ; tarsi and toes fully feathered ; 

 soles fleshy ; claws whity-brown. 



" According to the Tankuls who were with me, small flights of the species are 

 occasionally seen in this locality, but are more common in the hills further north. At 

 the same time I am very doubtful whether they really distinguish between this species 

 and Cotjjle riparia and C. sinensis ; flights of the former of which at any rate do, at times, 

 as already recorded, appear high up on the eastern hills. 



" I have never received this from any other part of Assam myself, but Godwin- 

 Austen records it in his fifth list from Koonchungbhum, in his Dafla hill list from above 

 Doripu, and again from the Eastern Naga Hills. So far as we know, it does not extend 

 to Burmali, and Tankul-Hoondoong is the most southern locality at which it has been 

 obtained." 



The descriptions have been taken from the specimens in the British Museum. The 

 Plate represents the Ptunjeet valley and the snows of Sikhim. The highest mountain 

 is ' Kanchinjinga.' 



