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Bangs — A Neio Swift from Palestine. 



paler above and upperparts pale drab, lighter still on forehead and crown, 

 the dusky marking in front of eye consequently very conspicuous; brown 

 band across chest very narrow and the white throat patch large. 

 Measurements. — 



Remarks. — Our two specimens, neither of which bears any sex mark, 

 were in fully adult plumage, fresh and unworn, and their pallid coloring 

 is not the result of fading. 



Hartert, in Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, Vol. XVI, p. 

 439, mentions some very pallid skins from the western Himalayas, and 

 from Belgaum, and possibly the pale form described above lias a wide 

 breeding range. 



