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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
Burmese list. Having no specimens which I can conveniently examine at 
the present moment^ I give Dr. Jerdon^s description of this Swallow : — 
Above glossy blacky with some whitish edges to the dorsal feathers ; 
crown dark rufous ; rump brownish ; beneath white^ with black mesial 
streaks to the feathers of the throat and breast ; the under surface of the 
wings pale brown ; tail slightly furcate, with a small whitish spot towards 
the tip of the inner web of each feather. Length 4*5 inches_, wing 3" 5, 
tail 1-75.^' 
Mr. Shopland found about ten nests in April under a bridge ; some 
contained young birds, others fresh eggs. The nests were composed of mud 
and lined with grass, casuarina-leaves and feathers ; the greatest number of 
eggs in any one nest was four, and they were white speckled with two 
shades of brown, chiefly round the larger end. 
369. ARTAMUS FUSCUS. 
(Vol. i. p. 396.) 
Mr. Shopland found two nests in Arrakan at the end of April. Both 
were placed in cocoanut-trees close to the trunk and just below the stalks 
of the lowermost leaves. The nests were made of fibre. 
418. CAPRIMULGUS MACRURUS. 
(Vol. ii. p. 20.) 
Mr. Shopland is probably the first naturalist who has found the nest of 
this Nightjar. He writes : — " On 20th March, 1880, I found an egg of this 
bird on an island off the Borongo ; it was on the bare ground amongst a 
lot of dead leaves and under a small bush. I should not have discovered 
it had not the bird flown away hurriedly at my approach. A month later 
(27th April) I found another egg amongst the small scrub-jungle on the 
sea-beach at Akyab ; this I discovered in the same manner as the former 
one. Both eggs are of a very light cafe-au-lait colour clouded with light 
purple ; the colour reminds me of a bruise nearly healed. They have a 
slight gloss, and measure 1*21 and 1*13 inch in length by *9 and '85 in 
breadth respectively.^^ 
502. EUDYNAMIS MALAYANA. 
(Vol. ii. p. 119.) 
Mr. Shopland states that the Malayan Coel in Arrakan lays in April and 
May, frequently depositing two eggs in the same Crowds nest. 
