flaring his travels in India : — " I met with a colony nesting in March on the cliffs of the 

 Jumna, ahout a mile from Etawah. The nests were inaccessible, but I obtained the 

 specimens of the birds from which the figures in the plate are drawn. I also found the 

 species nesting on the Nerbudda, ten miles from Jubbulpur. One colony bad their nests 

 only about two feet above the water. I tried to cut away a nest from the rock, but it 

 went to pieces like sand. It contained one white egg. The birds hovered around all 

 the time with a Bat -like flight." 



Dr. Jerdon gives the following note on the species : — 



" I found it first on rivers in Bundelkund, the Sonar, and the Ken, breeding in 

 company on the rocky cliffs overhanging the rivers. I afterwards found it in one or two 

 localities, not very far from Saugor, on the Nerbudda, near Jubbulpore, and also on the 

 Wurdah river, not far from Chanda. It has hitherto, I believe, not been found by any 

 other observer, and is doubtless both rare and local in its haunts, and occurs only in 

 small numbers. Probably fifty or sixty nests, all crowded closely together, were seen by 

 me in several of their breeding-spots, the nests being retort-shaped like the last. The 

 birds were busy breeding at the time I first discovered them, towards the end of April 

 and May, but I could not get at the nests to procure the eggs." 



Mr. Blanford observed this Swallow on the Godavery, and makes the following 

 observations : — 



" I thrice saw colonies of Hlnmdo fluvicola, Jerdon ; but it is a rare bird. Their 

 nests were in every case massed together, as described by Dr. Jerdon (B. Ind. i. p. 162), 

 beneath an overhanging bank, below which was deep water. My friend Mr. Tedden, 

 who was with me in the same district, told me that he met with a colony beneath a 

 waterfall on the Pem Gunga river, and the birds flew in and out of their nests through 

 the water. In every case the nests were in places which would be covered by the river 

 during the wet season. I was told by the natives that the birds keep about the same 

 spot, and return again to their former nesting-place after the rains. This is highly 

 probable ; for one, at least, of the localities I hit upon was mentioned by Dr. Jerdon — 

 that on the "VYurdu river, west of Chanda. The birds appear never to go very far from 

 their nests, and generally keep close to the river, beating for about half a mile or so up 

 and down, net, however, keeping to the river-bed itself, as H. rujiceps, Licht., does when 

 breeding. I obtained the eggs, which are very similar in shape and colour to those of 

 H. rujiceps, being white, sparingly spotted with claret-colour, or nearly pure white. I 

 suspect the birds have two broods in the year — one in February, the other in April. I 

 found many young birds in the nests at the beginning of March ; while in the middle of 

 April there were eggs in the nests, and the young of the first brood, differing very little 

 from their parents, were flying about." 



Commenting on the above notes, Dr. Jerdon writes : — 



" Mr. Blanford has recently found it in the same localities as the first procured by 

 myself. He also observed apparently some of the very colonies of nests I had noted, and 



