is at present no evidence of its crossing the limits of these rivers. It is not known in 

 Sind, and cannot be plentiful in the Northern Punjab. The late Professor Leith Adams 

 procured a specimen of a Swallow which he described in the ' Proceedings ' of the 

 Zoological Society for 1S59 (p. 176), and which has always been identified as the present 

 species. He says it was " common on the lakes and streams in the Vale of Cashmere 

 during the summer months, and likewise in the Punjab at certain seasons." Dr. Jerdon 

 comments on this passage, and states that he never saw the species at all in Cashmere. 

 It certainly does occur there ; for a specimen obtained by Mr. W. E. Brooks at Chungus, 

 in June 1S71, is in the Hume Collection. A skin collected by Captain Stackhouse 

 Pinwill at Kangra, in the Punjab, is also in the British Museum. 



Mr. Hume gives the following summary of its range in the north : — 



" The Indian Cliff-Swallow is one of the commonest of our Swallows in Upper 

 Jndia, at any rate. From the Tonse River, near Mirzapur to the Sutledge, near Pero- 

 zopur, it abounds wherever there is water and cliffs or ruined buildings, against which 

 it can plaster its huge mud honeycomb-like congeries of nests. In the Dhoon, under 

 the Solanee Aqueduct, in Ajmere, at Ahmedabad in Guzerat, in Saugor, in the Central 

 Provinces, and in twenty other places, I have noticed numerous colonies in and on 

 buildings ; and as for breeding in cliffs, to give one single instance (and I could give 

 fifty), visiting the river Chambal where the Etawah and Gwalior Road crosses it, 

 and following its course downwards to its junction at Bhurrey with the Jumna, one will 

 meet with at least one hundred colonies of this species, all with their clustered nests 

 plastered against the faces of the high clay cliffs w r hich overhang the river." 



When in Kathiawar, Colonel Hayes Lloyd states : — 



" I shot two out of a small party of these Swallows flvins? about the rockv bed of a 

 river near the town of Dhrole ; and on another occasion, when lying out on the shores 

 of the Gulf of Kuchh waiting for Waders, a single bird of this species flew round close 

 to me. I have not noticed it on any other occasion." 



Colonel E. A. Butler records the species from Kutch, Kathiawar, and Gujarat. 

 He says it is rare in the former districts, and only locally distributed in the other. He 

 met with it about ten miles north of Ahmedabad, on the Deesa Road. Mr. Hume also 

 writes : — 



" I shot several Indian Cliff-Swallows a few miles from Mount Aboo. It does not, 

 I fancy, ascend the hills, and must even in the plains be there a rare straggler, as neither 

 Dr. King nor Capt. Butler appear to have observed it. I have seen a single specimen 

 from Cutch. Prom Sindh it has not yet been sent. Eastward from Mt. Aboo it 

 becomes more common, and at Ajmere there are large colonies, and again southward 

 in the environs of Ahmedabad." 



Mr. R. M. Adam found this Swallow very common to the west of Sambhur, and a 

 number of specimens from Ajmere are in the Hume Collection. Mr. Hume also found 

 it plentiful on the lakes in Oodeypore. There are also specimens in the Hume Collection 

 from Bhurtpur, Futtehpur Sikri, and Etawah. Mr. Wyatt has the following note made 



