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and there ; quills black, upper back and rump white, the feathers 

 all black shafted ; upper tail coverts white ; tail reddish-brown, 

 broadly tipped with creamy white ; all the lower parts deep black. 

 Bill dingy yellow ; facial skin cobalt blue ; legs, dusky yellowish. 

 Size rather larger than that of Lophophorus Impeyanus. 



The feathers of the head are exceedingly short and crisp. The 

 living bird from which this description was taken, was brought 

 down by some shikarees from the hills above Suddya. When I first 

 saw it, the feathers of its head were not in good condition, and I 

 thought that the absence of the crest might have been accidental. 

 It has, however, moulted since I first saw it. and there is not the 

 smallest appearance of a crest ; indeed the feathers are particularly 

 short, crisp, and curved in different directions. The other two 

 species of Monal are both well crested, though the crest is of a 

 different form in the new Lophophorus EEuysii from that of the long 

 known Impeyan pheasant. 



Cypselus teetorum, J e r d o n. 



The thatch palm-swift. 



Above glossy greenish brown, paler and less glossed below, 

 somewhat albescent on chin and throat; quills and tail darker, 

 brown-black. 



Length about 4| inches ; wing, 4£ ; tail 2£. 



This Swift is quite of the type of Gyps, hatassiensis^ but a much 

 darker coloured bird, and with a shorter tail. I first saw it in 

 Major Godwi n-A u s t e n ' s collection of birds made in the hills 

 of North Oachar, and that gentleman permitted me to describe it. 

 True to its type, it builds on palm leaves, but on such as form the 

 roofs of the Nagas in those hills. Major Godwin- Austen 

 obtained the nest and egg, being very similar to those of hatassiensis. 



On coming to Calcutta, I found that the same species had been 

 procured by one of the Museum collectors from the Grarro Hills, 

 and since that Major Glodwin-Austen has written to me 

 " Cypselus teetorum found again on the roofs of Grarro huts." 



Then why absent in the intermediate range of the Khasi and 

 Jaintia hills ? Simply, I presume, because these races, being a 

 little more civilized, do not thatch their huts with palm leaves* 



