BY R. B. WILLIAMS. 
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Macropteryx longipennis, Rafin. 
(The Long-icinged Swift.) 
Fairly common in open spaces. Feet and tarsus dusky 
brown; iris dark brown. Oil-gland rather large, pointed 
and black. 
Macropteryx comata, Temm. 
(The White Eye-browed Swift.) 
I have not seen it often, but on May 24th, 1913,1 saw two 
sitting on low dead trees in an old clearing. They would 
sit still on their low perch, but make repeated short flights 
after insects and then return. 
Pyrotrogon duvauceli, Temm. 
(The Small Black-headed Trogon.) 
Bartlett says this is the most abundant of the trogons, 
but I have not often seen it, doubtless because of its habits. 
It will sit for hours in a low tree, hunched up and with its 
feathers ruffled up. The bill is black at the tip and margins, 
from which margins it shades into deep, almost violet, 
blue; this colour is continued to the gape and beyond it, 
where there is a curious long patch of naked deep blue 
skin. There is a curious patch of rather light blue naked 
skin overhanging the eye. Iris dark brown; the feet are 
black. The stomach contained insects, and among them a 
fairly large grasshopper. 
CuCULUS MICROPTERUS, Gould. 
(The Indian Cuckoo.) 
Bill black. The mandible black at the point and grey- 
green for the rest of the way to the gape, which has the 
outer skin canary yellow, as are also the protruding and 
very striking eyelids. Feet bright yellow; iris brown. 
Penthoceryx sonnerati, Lath. 
{The Banded Bay Cuckoo.) 
Common, especially during the north-east monsoon. It 
has a lazy, slow-flapping flight; it may often be seen on 
the ground, and it also frequents low trees and bushes. 
The bill is black, but shades to yellowish-grey, or even 
orange, towards the base of the mandible. Feet greenish- 
yellow with yellow soles ; claws grey ; iris brown. 
