on some Burmese Birds. 
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155. Lyncornis cerviniceps. 
This fine Nightjar is plentiful in the Pegu Yorna hills, 
where I obtained a considerable series during a march from 
Thyetmyo to Tonghoo. Whenever the camp was pitched on 
a cleared place of any size in the jungle, they were sure to be 
seen at dusk. 
163. Acanthylxs gigantea. 
The specimens which Major Lloyd sent to Lord Tweeddale 
were obtained in the Karen-nee hills, far beyond the British 
boundary. I have never seen this Swift in the Tonghoo 
district. 
171. CoRVUS SPLENDENS. 
Corvus insolens, Hume (S. F. ii. p. 480). 
The common Burmese Crow seems to me to have every right 
to specific distinction; but many ornithologists, Mr. Blyth 
and Lord Tweeddale among others, have considered it merely 
a melanoid race of C. splendens. 
174. Dendrocitta himalayensxs. 
I obtained two eggs of this species at an elevation of 4200 
feet in the Karen hills on the 16th April 1875. 
The eggs are described by Mr. A. O. Hume at page 424 
of his f Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds/ 
This species is universally distributed in the hills. The note 
sounds as if the bird first cleared its throat and then whistled 
a long note through its nostrils. 
175. Crypsirhina varians. 
Common at Tonghoo and Rangoon. It is very fond of 
sitting on the telegraph-wires or on the dead branch of a tree, 
from which it darts at insects like the Bee-eaters. 
The irides are pale blue. 
176. Crypsirhina cucullata. 
Having never in the course of two years' careful observa¬ 
tion met with this bird in Burma to the eastward of the Pegu 
Yoma range, I was under the impression that it did not 
cross that range, but I find a skin sent by Major Lloyd from 
Tonghoo in Lord Tweeddale's collection. This specimen, 
