8. COLLOCALIA. 



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4. Collocalia innominata. 



Collocalia innominata, Hume, Stray Feath. i. p. 294 (1873) ; id. op. 

 cit. ii. pp. 160, 493 (1874) ; id. op. cit. viii. p. 85 (1878) ; Hume S,- 

 Davison, Stray Feath. vi. p. 49 (1877) ; Oates, B. Burmah ii. p. 7 

 (1883). 



Collocalia maxima, Hume, Stray Feath. iv. p. 223 (1876). 



Adult. Crown, nape, and back dark smoky brown with a little 

 metallic gloss, the cap somewbat darker; feathers in front of the 

 eye blackish with white bases ; wings and tail more blackish with 

 metallic gloss ; rump brownish grey with dark shaft-lines, forming 

 a usually quite perceptible but sometimes less defined band across 

 the upper surface ; lower surface dusky brownish grej', the feathers 

 with dark shaft-lines ; chin and upper throat a little darker ; under 

 wing-coverts dark glossy brown ; tarsi feathered except on the 

 lowest part. Total length about 5-2 inches, biU at base 0-2 broad, 

 culmen 0*2, tarsus 0"5, wing 5-2 to 5'4, tail 2"2. 



Hah. Southern parts of Tenasserim from Mergui to Bankasoon. 

 One specimen, the type of the species, was obtained in (South 

 Andaman. 



a-e. S ad. ;/. 2 ad. Bankasoon, June and Dec. Hume Coll. 



sk. ( W. Davison), 



g. $ ad.sk. Mergui, June \%{W.Davi- Hume Coll. 



son). 

 h. 5 ad. sk. Port Mouat, And., Jan. 6 Hume Coll. 



(JF. Davison). (Type of the species.) 



5. Collocalia francica. 



La petite Hirondelle noire a croupion gris, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. 

 p. 696 (1779) ; ibid. fol. vii. p. 345 (1783)* (Re de France). 



Grey-rumped Swallow, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. p. 682 (1783). 



Hirundo francica, Gm. Syst. Nat. ii. p. 1017 (1788) ; Lath. Did. Orn. 

 p. 580 (171 0) ; Stepk. Gen. Zool. x. p. 115 (1817) ; Grif. An. 

 Xinyd. \n. p. 67 (1829). 



Hirundo francisca, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. xiv. p. 525 (1817). 



Hirundo francife, Less. Tr. Orn. p. 270 (1831). 



Collocalia fi-ancica, Gray, List Spec. B. Brit. Mus. p. 21 (1848) ; E. 

 Newton, Ibis, 1860, p. 201 ; Cab. ^- Heijw, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 82 

 (1860) ; Hartl. Orn. Beitr. Faun. Maday. p. 27 (1861) ; Coquerel, 

 Alb. Beirniun, p. 21, fig. 1 (1865) ; Schley. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 421 ; 

 Grai/, Ann. Sf- Mag. Nat. IL'st. 1866, xvii. p. 122 ; F. Newton, Ibis, 

 1861, p. 271 (Mauritius) ; ibid. 1867, p. 359 ; Schley. ^- Pollen, 

 Faun. Maday. ii. p. 67 (1868) ; Gray, Hand-l. i. p. 65 (1869) ; 

 Walden, Ibis, 1874, p. 132 (part.) ; id. ibid. 1876, p. 356 (part.) ; 

 Hartl. Voy. Madag. p. 59 (1877) ; Milne-Fdm. ^ Gi-andid. Mada- 

 gascar, p. 198, pis. Ixxii.-lxxv. (1879) ; Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. 

 p. 372 (1882). 



* The description is quite significant, but the figure in Daubent. Pi. Enl. 

 544 does not show the whitish rump, and may possibly belong to another 

 bird. 



