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on Dr. Jerdon's c Birds of India.’ 
commonly apply the name Chdmchiki to this Swift, by which 
they also designate the smaller Bats. 
103. Collocalia fuciphaga (Thumb.); Wallace, P. Z. S. 
1863, p. 384 [cf. Ibis, 1863, p. 323). 
Capt. Beavan informs me of the interesting fact that already 
in the Andaman Islands this Swiftlet “ takes to breeding inside p§C 
houses, preferring inner rooms, both on Ross and Chatham 
islands*. A large Acanthylis was observed on Ross/’ This was 
doubtless A. gigantea. 
I may here remark that the genus Podargus (vol. i. p. 191) 
reverses the outer toe in perching, as is likewise observable in the 
Owls. The supposed genus Otothrix is merely the adult phase 
of certain Batrachostomi. Dr. Cabanis (Mus. Hein. ii. pp. 121, 
123) refers the Podargince (and also the Passerine family Eurylce - 
mince \) to his family Coraciidce ! [vide Mr. Wallace's remarks on 
Eurylcemus , Ibis, 1864, p. 41). 
109. Caprimulgus albonotatus. 
Colonel Tytler endeavours to express the voice of this species 
in writing (Ann. Mag. N. H. 1854, xiv. p. 174). 
110. Caprimulgus macrurus. 
Mr. Gould states that this bird is found in “ Southern India" 
(Handb. B. Austral, i. p. 100),—meaning the Indo-Chinese and 
collection of the Danish Missionary John, now in the Library of the 
Asiatic Society, Calcutta, there is one of a very remarkable palm of this 
species in Southern India, wherein the stem divides irregularly into 
numerous heads, some ten or twelve in number, much in the manner of a 
Pandanus. The African genus Hyphcme (comprising the Doum-palm of 
Upper Egypt and Nubia) is a well-known branching form; and a common 
ramifying palm in India and Burma is the Phoenix pctludosa (figured in 
Griffith’s ‘Palms’), inhabiting the Bengal Sundarbans, and especially 
places covered by high tides, being only found near brackish water: a 
few others are known. In the garden of a native gentleman, near Calcutta, 
I saw a cocoa-nut palm which threw off many shoots or pseudo-branches 
from the stem (like those of the South African date-palms, but never 
the Phoenix sylvestris of India). I called the late Dr. Falconer’s attention 
to the cocoa-nut palm here mentioned, and he had a figure taken of it. 
* A more decided case of a like change of habit in the West-Indian 
Tachornis phoenicobia is noticed by Mr. March (cf. Ibis, 1864, p. 405). 
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