518 
Mr. G. L. Bates on the 
respectively, 18 x 12'5, 17*5 x 12*5, and 17 x 12 mm. In the 
other were two similar eggs; one was broken, the other 
measures 17x12 mm. 
Tachornis parvus. 
Tachornis parvus brachypterus Beichenow, V. A. ii. 
p. 386. 
No. 4449. (? (testes small). Bitye, Oct. 1910. 
I had seen these Palm-Swifts about the cocoa-nut trees at 
the coast, but had never noticed them in the interior till last 
year. During this time they were not infrequently seen 
sailing to and fro about some palm-trees for a few minutes 
at a time, and then disappearing ; none were ever shot or 
even seen to alight. The specimen I at last obtained was 
picked up one morning after a storm on a path bordered on 
either side by tall wet grass. 
Pitta reichenowi. [Ko’-afan.] 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1901, p. 621 ; 1905, p. 467. 
No. 4196. $, breeding. Bitye, May 1910. Inside of 
mouth and tongue orange (as in young birds, though this 
individual was adult). It was snared with a noose fixed on 
the ground in the forest, where it had been scratching. 
No. 4417. (J (testes large). Inside of mouth and tongue 
red ; iris dark reddish-brown ; bill black, with a red spot on 
the culmen and a small one on the gonys ; feet greyish-white. 
A brood-spot on the abdomen. 
This last bird was brought, along with a nest and two eggs, 
from the big forest by a man who saw the nest on the branch 
of a fallen tree, higher than his head. He climbed to it and 
fixed a large Phrynium leaf over it and another under, in 
such a manner that by drawing a noose he could enclose the 
bird when it came back to the nest. Late in the evening he 
drew the string, and the next morning went and took his 
prisoner out, still alive. 
The nest was too much disarranged to be described; it 
was large, and composed mainly of dried forest leaves, with 
some petioles and rootlets. 
