April, and Mr. Hume states that he has taken eggs on the Jumna in the Etawah district 

 in February and April. The Hume collection also contains specimens procured near 

 Delhi in October and Decemljer. The late Captain Beavan observed it in some abundance 

 on the 1st of April, 1866, when on the march from Umbala to Kalka, and within some 

 ten or twelve miles of the latter place. 



In the Ku.naon Bhabur, Dr. King j^rocured specimens in Janiiary and Marcli. 

 Mr. E.. M. Adam found it breeding in Oudh on the 23rd of Ajiril. Mr. George Eeid 

 says that in the Lucknow Division it is abundant along the banks of all the rivers, and 

 frequents Hyder All's canal in vast numbers, breeding from February to May. 



Dr. Scully found the species " fairly common in the valley of Xepal, and it resides 

 there throughout the year ; in winter it is very noticeable, aS the SwaJlows and Swifts 

 are then absent. It was met with in fair numbers in winter in the Na^vakot district 

 and Markhu Valley. The bird is usually found over wet fields and marshy ground, and 

 along the course of streams. It has its holes and breeds in the banks of rivers and in 

 the sides of the alluvial cliffs so common in the valley of Nepal." Specimens collected 

 bv him in February and ^Mav are in the Hume collection, which also contains an 

 immature bird procured by Mr. Mandelli in Native Sikhim in May, and both old and 

 young birds obtained by the same naturalist in the Bhotan Dooars. 



In his ' List of the Birds of Manipur, Assam, Sylhet, and Cachar,' Mr. Hume 

 writes : — " Occasionally seen about the larger streams in the Western and near thr 

 Southern Hills. Common tliroughout the basin, esj)ecially about the capital and the 

 Logtak Lake ; only very rarely met with in the Eastern Hills. I found this species 

 occasionally in moderate-sized communities all along the rivers in Sylhet and Cachar. 

 From the Valley of Assam I do not find it recorded, and I have as yet received no speci- 

 mens thence, but it almost certainly occurs there." 



Mr. Davison procured a specimen at Seraigung on the Brahmaputra Biver in 

 December. Mr. Cripps states that it is decidedly common in the Dibrugurh district, 

 along the larger rivers, where the banks are preciintous. During the rains tliey 

 migrate. 



Colonel Godwin-Austen, in his second list of the birds of the Khasia Hills, records 

 it as breeding in January at Shirshang, in the banks of the Lumessary Biver. Some 

 mistake has occurred in tlie dimensions of the specimens, as pointed out by IMr. llnmc, 

 the lengtli l)cing given as \2,\ inches, and the wing as Sj inclies. 



The Indian Sand-Martin is found near Calcutta, and Mr. Blytli has L'oinul it l)rccding 

 in the banks of the Hugli during the cold season, l^ueliauan Hamilton states tliat the 

 species is migratory near Calcutta, coming in October and heaving in .M.nch ; Imt .Icrdmi 

 states that he has seen them frequently in May, and diirinu' the i-ains also, Iput they were 

 more scattered at the time. The same observer states that llic species is rare in ilic 

 south of India, where there are few rivers witli liigli alluvial lianks, Iml is Idunil in cvi'iy 

 large river from the Godavery northwards, and swarming on the (laiiLics. 



Near Faridpur, in Eastern Bengal, Mr. J. B. Cripps states that it is very eonnuon 



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