8. COLLOrALIA. 507 



tarsus blackish brown. Total length about 4 inches, wing 4-3, 

 tail 1-8. 



Hah. jN^cw Caledonia and Loyalty Islands. 



a. Ad. sk. New Caledonia. Purchased. 



(Type of the species.) 



b. d ; c, d. 5 ad. New Caledonia, May 9 {E. L. ' Tweeddale Coll. 

 sk. Layard). 



7. Collocalia troglodytes. 



Collocalia troglodytes, Grmi, Gen. B. pi. 19 (1845) ; id. Iland-l. i. 

 p. 65 (1809) ; Wall. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 384; Martens, J. f. 0. 1866, 

 p. 18; Bp. Compt. Bend. xli. p. 977; Pelz. Bfise Novara, Tliff. 

 p. 40 (I860); Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc. ix. p. 158 (1875) ; Tweedd. 

 P. Z. S. 1877, p. 823 (Mindanao) ; Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. i. 

 p. 320 (1877) ; Hume, Sfrai/ Feath. viii. p. 47 (Malay Peninsula) 

 (1879); Sharpe, Ibis, 1888, p. 198 (Pala^van) ; Whitely, Ibis, 

 1890, p. 46 ; Steere, List B. ^- Mamm. Philippines, p. 12 (1890). 



Adult. Above metallic black, with a white band 0*2 inch broad 

 across the rump, with blackish longitudinal stripes, the feathers 

 being white with black tips and blackish shaft-lines ; sides of head 

 and neck dusky, feathers in front of the eye with white bases ; 

 feathers of the lower surface brown, with darker shafts and white 

 edges, giving these parts a mottled brown and white appearance ; 

 the chin and sides of body uniform brown ; under tail-coverts and 

 under wing-coverts blackish. Total length about 3"5 inches, 

 wing 3-7 to 3-8, tail 1"5. 



Hah. Philippine Islands down to Palawan. 



a-d. Ad. sk. [Philippines.] Cuming Coll. 



(Types of the species.) 

 e-h. tS ; i-m. J Placer, Mindanao, July {A. H. Tweeddale Coll. 

 ad. sk. Everett). 



8. Collocalia uropygialis. 



Collocalia uropygialis, (h-ay, Ann. S)- Mag. Nat. Hist. 1866, xvii. p. 123 

 (New Hebrides) ; id. Hand-l. i. p. 65 (1869) ; Tristr. Ibis, 1876, 

 p. 260 ; Gray, in Cruise of the ' Cura(;oa,' p. 356, pi. ii. fig. 2 (1873) 

 Fmsch, P.Z.S. 1877, p. 738; id. in Sd. Bep. Challenq. p. 53 

 Layard, Ibis, 1878, p. 253 (N. Caledonia) ; id. Ibis, 1879, p. 107 

 id. Ibis, 1880, pp. 223, 337 (Loyalty Islands) ; id. Ibis, 1882, p. 502'. 



Adult. Above black with steel-blue gloss, a band across the rump 

 pure white ; chin, throat, upper breast, and sides of body dark grey, 

 with some whitish edges to the feathers ; lower breast and abdo- 

 men white ; under tail-coverts bluish black with white edges, the 

 longest entirely bluish black ; under wing-coverts blackish, the 

 longest with white tips ; rectrices with white spots on the basal 

 portion of their inner webs, these spots varying in extent and not 

 being developed on the central pairs of rectrices. Total length 

 about 3-5 to 4 inches, wing 3-9, tail 1-7. 



Hah. New Hebrides and New Caledonia. 



