2. COTILE, gg 



6. Chelidon nipalensis. 



Delichon nipalensis, Hochjs. Icon. ined. Brit. Mus., App v\ xiv rnr, 



963); .mo.. PZ.^', 1854, p. 104, pi. Ixiii. / if;.^!^/^ 



Cat.B EI. Co. Mus i p. 384 (1854); SwinKIbis, 1863; p. 89- 



Goidd, B. Asm, 1. pi. 31 (18G8) ; Hume, Str. F. 1879 p 84 ' 



Chehdon nipalensis, /e/-d B. hid. i. p. 168 (180:2) ; Gray Hand-l B 



1. p 74, no 885 (1869) ; Dresser, B. Bur. iii. ^I 49[) (isTs) 

 Hirundo nipalensis, Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. iii. p. 179 (1883). 

 Mt. General colour above glossy blue-black, with a' sKe-lit 

 mottling on the hmd neck and mantle, produced by the white bases 

 to the feathers shomng through; wmg-coverts glossy blue-black 

 like the back, the primary-coverts and quills black, washed with 

 gloss3' blue-black on the edges; rump white, the lower feathers 

 barred with black tips; upper tail-coverts glossy blue-black, the 

 basal ones white, tipped broadly with blue-black ; tail-feathers black 

 glossed with steel-blue; lores, feathers round the eye, and chin 

 velvety black; cheeks, ear-coverts, and throat glossy blue-black- 

 remanider of under surface from lower throat downwards white; 

 the feathers on the former part slightly mottled with blackish 

 bases; flanks slightly washed with smoky brown ; sides of upper 

 breast b ue-black ; thighs and tarsal plumes white; under £Z 

 coverts glossy blue-black; under wing-coverts and axiUaries blackish 

 glossed with blue-black; quills dusky below, paler along ed-^e 

 of inner web. Total length 4-1 inches, culmen 0-3, win^S 7 

 tail l-7o, tarsus 0-35. ° '' 



_ Obs. Some specimens have the whole under surface white except- 

 ing the chin. These birds may represent the adult female. Total 

 length 4-3 inches, culmen 0-25, wing 3-75, tail 1-75,' tarsus 0-4 



A young bird in Mr. Seebohm's coUection (recognizable by* the 

 yeUow gape) has the black throat of the adult indicated by duskv 

 brown plumes and equaUy weU defined. If my identification of the 

 sexes IS correc this would be an immature male ; but it is unfortu! 

 nate that of the large series examined by me only two should 

 have had the sex determined by a coUector. 



Hab. Eastern Himalayas, 

 a, b. Ad. sk. Nepal {Hodgson). India Museum. (Types of 



c, d. Ad. sk. Nepal r 'wh^'^ ^ r^ . 



J/ Ad sk. HiLiayas ,Jerdon). L'fd SSn^^^" ^^■^^ 



^. Ad. sk. Sikium(J/««^,//0. R. B. Sharne Eso rP 



h Ad.; e. 2 ad. sk. Nynee Tal, July ist. R B. ShaT,' ^^ P 



^. 6 ad. sk. Nynee Tal, AprU 29th. E. B. Sharje, Esq. [P. 



2. COTILE*. 



Clivicola Forster, S,,n. Cat. Br. B. p. 55 (1817) Sria 



Cotile, Boie, Isis, 1&22, p. 550 . . ^ P ^ P"^^?**- 



Biblis, Lesson, Compl. Br^ff. viii. p. 495 (1837) ' ' ." ." .' .' .' .' ." .' ruWris 



Ptvonoprogne, Reuhenh. Syst. Ar. pi. Ixxxvii. %. 6 (1850 C Xstria* 



* Although accompanied by certain changes ofliabits and m^dT^Tr^i^lifi^i^ 

 tion. I do not think tl^^BibUs can be .epara^d from Cb.4 thTonly characSr^ 



