448 crrsELiDJ3. 



«. cJ ad. sk. Cape Town, Nov. 9 (C J! An- Tweeddale Coll. 

 dersson). 



b. Ad. sk. South Africa (Layard). Sbarpe Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. Cape. Purcliaaed. 



d. d ad. St. Cape. Sir A. Smith [C.]. 



5. Micropus unicolor. 



Cypselus miirarius, Heineken, Brnost. Journ. p. 'l^'l (1829) ; Keule- 



mans, Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. 1866, p. 364 (Cape Verde). 

 Cypselii.s unicolor, Jard. Edinh. Journ. Naf. Si' Geogr. Sc. i. p. 242, 



])1. vi. (1830); Jard. .y *%, III. Oni. pi. 83 (1839) (Madeira); 



f[VM4- Berf/i. Or II. C«w«r. p. 24 (1841); Gould, Voy.' Beagle; 



ii. p. 41 (1841) (Cape Verde Is.) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 65 (1850) ; 



Vernon Harcourt, P. Z. S. 1851, p. 144 (Madeira) ; Bolle, J.f. O. 



1857, p. 323; Newton, Ibis, 1863, pp. 186, 192 (Madeira); Scl. 



P. Z. S. 1865. p. 600 ; id. J. f. 0. 1867, p. 119 : Gray, Hand-l. i. 



p. 63, no. 718 (1869); Dohr'n, J.f. 0. 1871, p. 9 (Cape Verde) ; 



Godman, Ibis, 1872, p. 170 (Canar.) ; Dresser, Hist. B. Eur. iv. 



p. 601, pi. 268 (1881) ; Reid, Ibis, 1887, p. 434 ; M. Waldo, Ibis, 



1889, p. 4 ; Tri-str. Ibis, 1889, pp. 23, 25, 30 ; Koenig, J. f. O. 



1890, p. 270 (Madeira), p. 342 (Canar.). 



Micropus unicolor, Stejn. Auk, i. p. 230 (1884) ; Hocke, Zeitschr. f. 

 Oolog. 1891, p. 17 (liest and eg-g) ; Hartwig, Ber. Sept. Sitz. D. Orn. 

 Gas. p. 7 (1891). 



Adult. Coloured like AI. apus, but the chin not whitish, only a 

 little lighter than the breast. A much smaller bird than J/, apus 

 and its allies ; tail more deeply forked. Total length about 6 

 inches, wing 5'8 to (J, lateral rectrices 3, central 2'8. 



Hah. Madeira and the Canary Islands. Also observed on the 

 Cape Verde Islands, but possibly as a straggler only. 



Eadde's statement * that this bird occurs in the Caucasus (Kiis- 

 jiirdi) and is not a distinct species is no doubt incorrect. 



u. Ad. sk. Madeira. Dr. Halley [C.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Madeira. Gould Coll. 



c. A ad. .-^k. Madeira. W.T.Carruthers,Esq. 



[P.]. 



d. (S ad. sk. Madeira, June 27 {F. D. G.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 e,f. Ad. sk, Teuerifte, April. Salvin-Godman CoU. 

 g. S ad. sk. Tenerlffe, April 4 {J. G. Beid). Shelley Coll. 



h. Ad. sk. [Africa ?] ' Gould Coll. 



6. Micropus pacificus. 



Hirundo pacifica. Lath. Index Orn. Suppl. p. 58 (1801) ; Steph. 



Gen. Zool. x. p. 132 (1817). 

 Hirundo apus, var. ^. leucop3'ga, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. i. pp. 539 , 



540 (1811). 

 Cypselus australis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 141 ; Blyth, J. As. Soc. 



Bang. xi. p. 886 (1842) ; Gould, B. Austral, ii. pi. 11 (1848) ; 



Rosenb. J. f. O. 1864, p. 117 ; Finsck, Neu-Guinea, p. 162 (1865) ; 



Biggies, B. Austral, p. 20, pi. 20 (1877). 



* Ornis Oaucas. p. 29;]. 



