116 Observations regarding some species of birds, [No. 2, 



end, where a more or less ill-defined zone, or irregular and partial 

 cap is not uncommon. 



Again the nests are not, I should say " precisely similar" to those 

 of the Indian wire-tailed swallow, but are deeper and smaller, 

 coming to a well-defined point below. 



91. Ptionoprogne rupestris. — I quite agree with Mr. Blanford 

 that this species is not confined to the higher Hills ; it is only the 

 other day that I procured a pair at the Taragurh Hill, at Ajmere, 

 a solitary rocky outlier of the Aravallis only some 3000 feet in 

 height, but at the same time the only breeding places that I know of 

 are some 8000 feet high in the Himalayas. Amongst the lower 

 rocky ranges I have hitherto believed them (though in this I may 

 err) to be only winter and spring visitants, retiring in India to colder 

 and more elevated localities to breed in. 



293. Leucocerca leucog aster. — I have this species from as far 

 north as Mt. Abu, to which locality, I may notice, G 'alius Soncrati 

 also extends, as well as Cursorius Gallicus and Honiara Macqneeni 

 from the North West. 



310. Iluscicapula super ciliar is, extends during the cold weather 

 all over the plains of India. Mr. Brookes procured a specimen 

 in Etawah I think, and I have one from the same locality, another 

 from near Lucknow and several from Saugor. 



325. Urgthrosterna aeomaus. — The only specimen that I have of 

 this species was also a female — and was shot along with an JE. 

 maculata. I have not gone minutely into the question, but I would 

 suggest that possibly acornaus is only the female of maeulata. 

 Anyhow, all the specimens that I possess of the latter were 

 males. 



323. ErytlirGsterna parva. — This is the only species in upper 

 India. I am not sure if I have ever seen a true leucura from 

 any locality, except perhaps Tippera. — I have several European 

 specimens, and am perfectly certain that the huge series that I 

 possess from all parts of Bajputana, the N. W. and Central Pro- 

 vinces and Oudh, are one and all parva. 



268. Volvocivora Sykesi. — Not very uncommon about Saugor, I 

 got the nest and eggs both of this species and of Graucalus Macei, 

 this year for the first time, from this district. 



