510 



CYPSELID^. 



p. .340 (Batcliian) ; id. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 433 (Mysol) ; Rosenb. Nat. 



Tijdsch: Ned. Ind. xxv. p. 234 (1863) ; id. J.f. O. 1804, p. 120; 



Gray, A?in. ^- Maq. N. H. 1866, xvii. pp. 120, 121 ; id. Haml-l. i. 



p. 65, no. 749 (1869); id. Ann. ^- Mag. Nat. Hist. 1870, v. p. ^329 



(Ugi) ; id. Cruise of the ' Curacoa,^ Birds, p. 350, pi. ii. fig. 1 (1873) ; 



Tristr. Ibis, 1882, p. 143 (Solomon Is.). 

 C'ollocalia viiidinitens, G. M. Gray, Ann. ^- Mag. Nat. Hist. 1866, 



xvii. p. 120 (Celebes). 

 Collocalia spilura, Gray, Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. 1866, xvii. p. 120 



(Batchian) ; id. Hand-l. i. p. 65, no. 750 (18t9). 



uidult. Above black, with strong greenish and steel-blue, some- 

 times rather purplish, gloss ; feathers in front of the ej'e white, with 

 black tips ; sides of head and neck and chin dark grey ; throat and 

 breast dark grey with white edges, increasing in width on the under- 

 parts, so that the abdomen is entirely white ; under tail-coverts 

 glossy green, broadly bordered with white, longest uniform ; 

 rectrices, except central, with large white spots to the basal half of 

 the inner webs, these spots varying greatly in extent and some- 

 times being nearly obsolete : in one specimen from Cape York, on 

 the north coast of Australia, they are not at all developed, but are 

 visible in the two others from the same locality. Total length 

 nearly 4 inches, wing 38-4. 



Yo^mg birds are not so glossy above but are otherwise similar 

 to the adult ; nestlings are probably greyish brown above without 

 steel-blue gloss. 



Hub. Moluccan and Papuan Islands, from Celebes in the West to 

 New Guinea : Cape York on the north coast of Australia, and the 

 Solomon Islands in the East. 



a. Ad. sk. 



b. Ad. sk. 



c. cJ imm. sk. 



d. 2 ad. ; e. Imm. 

 fk. 



/. Ad. sk. 

 g. $ ad. sk. 



Macassar, Celebes. 



Mysol. 



Mysol. 



Batchian. 



Matabello Island. 

 Aru Islands. 



A. Ad. sk. 



Wallace Coll. 

 Wallace Coll. 

 Wallace Coll. 

 Wallace Coll. 

 (Types of C. spihira, Gray.) 

 Wallace Coll. 

 Wallace Coll. 

 (Type of C. hypoleuca, Gray.) 



6 ad 

 imm 

 m, n. 



sk. 

 Ad. sk. 



Astrolabe Alts., S.E. New Goldie Coll 



Guinea. 

 Gulf Isl., Solomon Isl., Aug, 



Cape York, Austr. {J. T. 

 Cockerill). 



Brenchley Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



12. Collocalia neglecta. 



Hirundo esculenta, var., Less. Tr. d'Orn. 1831, p. 270 (Timor). 

 Collocalia esculenta, B]). Compt. Rend. xh. p. 977 (1855) (Timor). 

 Collocalia neglecta, G. R. Gray, Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. 1866, 



xvii. p. 121 (Timor) ; id. Hand-l. i. p. 65, no. 751 (1869) ; Salvad. 



Atti R. Ac. 8c. Tor. xv. p. 346 (1880). 



Adult. Crown, tail, and wings glossy brownish black ; feathers of 

 the neck, back, rump, and upper wing-coverts dark plumbeous grey ; 



