Lucknow division. It liabitually frequeuts jhils and rivers, the masonry bridt^es over 

 the latter beini? favourite resorts ; but it mav be met with in anv locality on its ^vav tu 

 and from its especial haunts. 



Professor Valenthie Ball says that it is not unfrequently met with in Chota Xaupur. 

 especially in the vicinity of some of the larger rivers, and in his notes on the lards I'ouiid 

 between the Ganges and the Godaveri lliver he enumerates the following list of locali- 

 ties for the species : — Rajmehal Hills, Lohardngga, Singhbum, Sirgnja, Samhalpur, north 

 of Mahanadi, Orissa, south of Mahanadi. Mr. Hume has received it from llaipnr and 

 Sauijor, and Mr. W. T. Blanford met with it in the Wardha vallev. 



Colonel Swinhoe and Lieut. Barnes state that near ]\Ihow it is very common and a 

 permanent resident, breeding during March, April, and May. Captain Beavan observed 

 it near Morar in Gwalior, in the cold weather. Mr. AVyatt shot a female on the Xirhada 

 near Jabalpur. Colonel Butler obtained a young specimen in the valley of the Tapti. 

 in Western Khandeish, in May ; and in Western Khandeish, according to Mr. J. Davidson, 

 it is a permanent resident, common throughout the district, breeding along all the rivers 

 and nullahs over water from February to May. In the Deccan Messrs. Davidson and 

 Wenden state that it is common and l)reeds there. Colonel Butler, in Ins list of tlic 

 birds of the Southern Bombay Presidency, gives the species as a permanent resideni, 

 common and occurring in most localities throughout the region. Specimens collected 

 bv him at Belgaum are in the Hume collection. Mr. Vidal states that it is nowhere 

 common in the south Konkan, and gives as localities wdiere he has observed it — Ratna- 

 giri, Peve, Khed-Malvan, and Dhamapur in the south, and Bankok in the north. 



Mr. W. Davison has obtained the species at Muddur, in ]Mysore, and specimens from 

 Coonoor, in the Nilghiri Hills, are in the Hume collection. 



Captain Vipan, in the first volume of ' Stray Peathers,' refers to a letter addressed 

 to the ' Pield ' by an anonymous writer, in which the Wire-tailed Swallow is said not to 

 occur west of Coimbatore; but he states that he saw several in Pcbruary about livemiU's 

 from Cannanore, and about 200 yards from the coast. 



In Burmah Captain Wardlaw Bamsay procured the pres(Mit species at Tonghoo, and 

 Dr. Anderson met with it at Bhanio in January. A spceinicii iVom the neigliliDurhuod 

 of Rangoon is said by Mr. Oates to lie in the Phayrc jMuseuui in that Idwii. AiH'nrdini;- 

 to Messrs. Hume and ])avison it only occurs in tlic north of 'I'cuassrriiii ; and the latter 

 traveller says that he found the species Hying over the paddy-iields iu small numbers at 

 Pahpoon, but did not notice it anywhere else in the province. C;i|)l. iJin-h.im. writing 

 from Tenasserim, says: — " 1 ideiililicd, iiut failed to secure, sjiccimcns nl' this hcaut il'ul 

 Swallow at Kamanghi rapids on t he 'niouiigyeen River. In .lnl_\ 1^7'.>, I Innnd them 

 eoniinon ahout tin' ])a(l(ly-lifhls near Kamaulai on the Salwecn, ami secured a lew 

 specimens. I only noticed llieni for aday oi- two, and then they passed o\\ westwanl.' 



Von JLeuglin gives the following note on the hal)its of the Wire-tailed Sv,,,il.nv in 

 North-eastern Africa :--" i ohserved these charming little creatures Imm th.- end of liie 

 rainy season until Pebruary or March, hut i cannot say with certainly if they migrat.' 



