446 CTPSELID^. 



/. Ad. sk. Afglianistan. India Museum. 



m, n. (S 2 ad. sk. Kandahar, March, April. Swinhoe & Hume 



Colls. 



0. Ad. sk. Safed Koh, Afghan. ( W. Tweeddale Coll. 



Raiuactii). 



p, q. 5 ad. sk. Gilgit, r)600 & 10,000 ft., July. Biddulph Coll. 



r. Ad. sk. Souamuro-, Aug. (J. Bidduljih). India Museum, 



s. Ad. sk. Dras, July 11 {J. Biddulph). Tweeddale Coll. 



t, It. (^ $ ad. .*k. Cashmere. Hume Coll. 



r, w. Ad. : x-h'. Ilazara Distr. (Thaudianee, Hume Coll. 



Imm. sk. BadvUffe). 



v'. Ad. sk. Lipi, N.W. Prov. (Jerdo/i). Gould Coll. 



d'. Ad. sk. Pekiug, June 2. Hume Coll. 



c'. (S ad. sk. Port Blair, Andamans, July 30. Hume Coll. 



/, .'/'■ d ? ad. sk. Potchefstroom, 8. Africa, Jan. J. H. Gm'ney, Esq. 



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Subsp. 13. Micropus murinus. 



Cypselus apus, Webb ^- Bertli. Orn. C'aiiar. p. 23 (1841) ; Bolle, 

 V. /. 0. 1857, p. 322 (Canar.) ; Bnike, Ibis, 1867, p. 425 (Tan- 

 gier) ; Heuql. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 142, part. (var. murinus) (1869) ; 

 Hartiuig, j.f. O. 1886, p. 457 (Madeira) *. 



Cypselus mmarius, Vern. Hare. Ann. ^- Marj. Nat. Hid. xv. p. 437 

 (1855). 



Cypselus murinus, Brehm, Vogelf. p. 46 (1855) ; Kaiser, Ornis, 

 1890, p. 466 (Egypt). 



Cypselus pallidus, Shelley, Ibis, 1870, p. 445, 1871, p. 47 ; id. B. 

 'Egypt, p. 172 (1872) ; Irby, Ibis, 1872, p. 199, 1879, p. 343; id. 

 B. Gibraltar, p. 63 (1875) ; Saunders, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 356 

 (Granada) ; Godm. Ibis, lii72, p. 170 (Madeira & Canar.) ; Wright, 

 Ibis, 1874, p. 226 (Malta) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p". 92 

 (1875) ; Reid, Zoologist, 1878, p. 25 ; Dresser, Hist. B. Unr. iv. 

 p. 597, pi. 268 (1881) ; Bocage, Orn. Angola, p. 158 (1881) ; 

 Sharpe, Ibis, 1886, p. 487 (Fao) ; Gigl. Avif. Ital. p. 193 (1886) ; 

 id. ibid. 1889, p. 325 ; Salvad. Ucc. Ital. p. 80 (18.^7) ; Tristr. Ibis, 

 1889, p. 23 (Canar.) ; M. Waldo, Ibis, 1889, p. 509 ; Lilford, Ibis, 

 1889, p. 330 (Cyprus) ; Koenig, J. f. O. 1890, p. 269 (Madeira), 

 p. 346 (Canar.). 



Micropus palhdus, Stejn. Auk, i. p. 230 (1884). 



Micropus apus murinus, Hartert, Kat. Vogels. Mus. Senckenb. p. 119 

 (1891). 



Similar to M. apus, but much paler, of a real mouse-colour, the 

 whitish colour on the throat more extended, and the wings a trifle 

 shorter in the average. Wing 6'o to 6*7 inches. 



Western and Mediterranean birds are darker than those from 

 Egypt and the Persian Gulf, so that they often closely resemble 

 Eastern specimens of M. apus. 



* When we conBider that M. murinus breeds in most of the northern 

 parts of Africa, while M. apus passes through on migration, it must be 

 evident that in some cases it is impossible to decide which species is meant in 

 older writings. I therefore give refpvpnces to those authors only whose notes 

 make it possible to distinguish between those races. 



