any descent into the hot regions round the base of the mountains, for I have never seen 

 it, or heard of its being observed, in the low country. It is found in the open districts 

 formed by the great valleys in the Central Province, about estates, and on the plains of 

 the upper regions, being very common at Nuwara Elliya and in the neighbourhood. 

 I observed it at Ilorton Plains, and in the southern ranges met with it in the Morowak 

 and Kukkul Korales ; and throughout the high tract formed by these and the adjoining 

 Korales it is found down to the same altitude as in the Kandy country." 



On the Indian Peninsula it is known from Travancore, the Nilghiris, and the 

 Palani Hills. Mr. H. J. Elwes procured the species on the Cardamum Hills; and 

 Mr. P. Bourdillon states that it is a resident in Travancore, " travelling but little, two 

 or three persistently frequenting each sheltered ravine in an open clearing." The Hev. 

 S. B. Pairbank, in his paper on the birds of the Palani Hills, states that it was obtained 

 on the summit of the range, and also at Semiganur at an elevation of 5500 feet. In 

 the Xilghiri Hills it is a resident species and very common, according to Mr. Davison, 

 commencing to breed about the last week in Pebruary. The late Dr. Jerdon believed 

 tliat it was this Swallow which he found breeding at Bangalore ; but it has not been 

 recorded from that place by Major Wardlaw Ramsay or by any other ornithologist who 

 has collected of late years in that vicinity. 



Mr. Hume writes : — " This species appears to be common in the Andamans, at any 

 rate from the beginning of June to tlie end of September, as a number of specimens 

 have been sent to me, procured on different dates during these months. We none of us 

 saw this species anywhere about the islands between the beginning of December and 

 the end of April. It is therefore apparently only a monsoon visitant." Colonel Legge 

 also observes that, judging from the dates recorded of the appearance of the species in 

 the islands of the Bay of Bengal and Tenasserim, it would seem that the species 

 " migrated with tlie south-west monsoon from Soutli India or Ceylon across to the last- 

 mentioned localities, not straying above 13° or 14° N. lat." 



In Burma proper the present species has not yet been observed, though Mr. Gates 

 considers that it is not unlikely to occur within the limits of the province. Mr. Hume 

 believes tliat it Avill be found only in the more southern provinces of Tenasserim, as 

 Mr. Davison only met with the species in Mergui in June. There they were by 

 no means numerous, and Mr. Davison concluded that they were migrating ; but as 

 Mr. Theobald found the species nesting in Tenasserim, Mr. Gates concludes that it 

 is really a resident in that province. The Tropical Swallow is apparently, as Mr. Gates 

 justly oljserves, a resident bird in all the countries which it inhabits; but Mr. Hume's 

 evidence as to its migrations in the Andamans must not be overlooked. Further to 

 the south Mr. Darling procured the present sjiecies at Kossoum, and at the mouth of 

 the Poongah Ptiver, in the north of the Malayan Peninsula, in August. Dr. Miiller 

 has recorded it from Salanga Island ; and long ago Dr. Cantor met with it in Penang. 

 Here, says Mr. Swinhoe in 1873, it was the prevailing Swallow, and he found it nesting. 

 Mr. Davison has also obtained it in Johore in March. 



