O. CLAUDIA. 4(39 



Oypselus phoenicobiiis, Bp. Consp. i. p. QQ (1850) ; Scl. P Z S I860 

 p. 604; id. J. f. O. 1807, p. 125 ; Gra,/, Hmid-l. i. p. 64 (1869) [ 

 >Sc/ .)■ Sah: Norn. Av. Neotr. p. 94 (187;i) ; Salv. Cat. StricU. 

 Coll. p. 3/1 (1882) ; Cory, £. Haiti S,- S. Dominao, p. 87 (1885) ; 

 td. Auk, iii. p. 344 (1886) ; id. B. W. Ind. p. 139 (1889). 



Oypselus cayenueusis, Salle, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 232. 



Cypselus iradii, Lemh. Aves Cuba, p. 50 (1850). 



Cj^selus cavaneosis, Bryant, Pr. Bost. Sac. Nat. Hist, xi, p. 95 

 (18bb). ^ 



Tachornis iradii, Gundl. Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. 1860, p. 268 (Cuba) • 

 2^. J:/. O. 1874, p. 116. ^ ^ " 



Adult. Tail short, slightly furcate. Above black, wings a little 

 lighter; head and neck dark sooty brown; a large white band 

 across the rump, with some dark spots down the middle ; throat 

 and middle of abdomen white ; under wing-coverts, under tail- 

 coverts, sides of body, and a band across the breast dark sooty 

 brown; chin dusky. Total length about 4 inches, wing 4-1 

 lateral rectrices 1-65, central 1-4. ' 



Ilab. Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti, and San Domingo. 

 a-f. Ad. sk. Jamaica. 



ff-k. d 2 ad. sk. Spanish Town, Jamaica, Feb. Sclater Coll. 



(Bryant). 

 I, ni. S ad. sk. Spanish Town, Jamaica. Bryant Coll 



n. Sternum. Jamaica. Gosse Coll. " 



5. CLAUDIA. 



Cypselus, partim, auct. plurim. 

 Tachornis, partim, apud Gray. 



_ The single species of this genus belongs to the Palm-Swifts. It 

 differs from Tachornis as PanyptUa or A.eronautes (the latter of 

 which is more allied to Micropus in the form of the feathers) does 

 from Micropus. The feathering of the toes is quite obvious in 

 skins. 



Range. That of the single species hitherto known. 



1. Claudia squamata. 



Cypselus squamatus, Cass. Proc. Ac. Phil. vi. p. 369 (1853) • Scl 

 P. Z. S. 186.5, p. G05, pi. xxxiii.; id. J. / O. 1867, p. 126; ^'c/ &■ 

 Salvin, P Z. S 1867, p. 752 (Xeberos) ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 16 

 (1867) ; Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotrop. p. 94 n873) • Tac^ 

 0;-n. Pe>. i. p. 234 (1884). ^ '' 



Cypselus margiuipeuuis, Xatt. MS., teste Scl. I. c. 



Tachornis squamatus. Gray, Hand-l. i. p. 64 (1869). 



Adult. Tail long, very deeply furcate. Above, sides of body 

 and under wing-coverts black with steel-blue gloss, all the feathers 

 neatly bordered with white ; beneath white, all the feathers with 

 dark bases, which are more visible on the throat and upper breast, 



