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Hyderabad during the inundation, and Captain Maiden informed liim that it was common 

 about Jacobabad in May. Mr. Murray gives the following note on its occurrence : — 

 " In Sind it arrives about the latter end of July and breeds in the province. All the 

 nests taken by myself and Lieut. Henry Barnes were in July and August, and a few in 

 September. It builds a shallow cup or saucer-shaped nest of clay, lined with feathers, 

 generally under bridges and culverts, and, on the Indus, under the stern of the flat- 

 bottomed barges lying unused. Eggs 2-4, white, speckled all over with rusty or 

 brick-red." Mr. Scrope Doig has found it breeding in the Eastern Narra. In Kathiawar 

 it is common, according to Major Hayes Lloyd. 



Near the Sambhur Lake it is said by Mr. Adam not to be common, though a few 

 birds are always to be seen in the mornings, working over the fields. He obtained a 

 nest with two eggs on the 13th of July. Mr. Hume has specimens procured by himself 

 at Ajmere, in November and December. 



Colonel Butler, in his " Notes on the Avifauna of Mount Aboo and Northern 

 Guzerat," says that it seems to be partial to particular localities. In some places, though 

 not very plentiful anywhere, it may be seen in pretty considerable numbers, in others it 

 does not occur at all. He never saw one at Mount Aboo. Mr. Hume comments on the 

 above paragraph :■ — " Common throughout the whole region, but I also never saw it at 

 Aboo ; and Dr. King, who collected there for two years, neither preserved a sj)ecimen, 

 nor recorded it in his MSS. list. This is the more remarkable, as it ascends the Hima- 

 layas to an elevation of at least 5000 feet." 



On Mr. Sharj)e's journey to Simla he noticed a pair in May, flying under a bridge 

 near one of the hill-stations beyond Soluu, and he saw them there again on his return in 

 July. Dr. Stoliczka procured specimens at Kangra, in the North-west Himalayas, at a 

 lieight of 2000 feet, and in the Hume collection is a male from Koteghur. Mr. W. E. 

 Brooks met with it in May at Dhurmsala, in Cashmere. 



Colonel Tytler, du.ring his march from Simla to Masuri, states that it was not un- 

 common in valleys near streams, but at no great elevation ; and near Naini Tal and 

 Almora, Mr. W. E. Brooks records it as tolerably common along the rocky streams in 

 the valleys, where it bi-eeds. Colonel Strachey also met with it in Kumaon, and a 

 specimen from the Dehra Doon is in the Hume collection. Mr. Hodgson also obtained 

 it in Nepal. 



The late Captain Beavan writes: — "I have frequently heard from my late friend 

 Dr. Scott, that this species occurs in some abundance about Umballa in certain seasons, 

 and breeds there under culverts and road-bridges near that station, but I never observed 

 it there myself." The Hume collection, however, contains an example from the above 

 neighbourhood, collected by Dr. Scott. 



Captain Bingham has met with the Wire-tailed Swallow near Delhi in September ; 

 and in the Hume collection are examples from Luckuow, Cawnpore, Allahabad, Etawah, 

 and Mynpuri. Mr. George Beid remarks that the Wire-tailed Swallow is a permanent 

 resident, and, though never found in any great numbers, is universally spread over the 



