512 CrPSELIDiE. 



The tarsus is very short, the posterior margin of the sternum has 

 two foramina, instead of being imperforate as in the sternum of the 

 Cypselbuv and Chaturiiice. 



For further anatomical remarks, cf. Lucas, Auk, vi. p. 8 (1889), 

 where a new family, Dendrochelidonidce, is proposed. 



9. MACROPTERYX. 



Type. 



Macropteryx, Swains. Zool. III. ii. pi. 47 (1832) . . M. longipennis. 



Pallestre, Less. Compl. Buff. viii. p. 490 (1837) . . M. lougipennis. 

 Dendroclielidon, Boie, " in litt." Evsch Sf Gruber, 



Enc. xxix. p. 158 (1837j M. longipennis. 



Dendrocbelidon, Boie, Isis, 1844, p. 165 M. longipennis. 



Palaestra, Ayass. Nomencl. Zool. Ind. Univ. p. 271 



(1876). 



Chelidonia, Streubel, Isis, 1848, p. 370 M. mystacea. 



Range. India, Malayana, and Papuasia. 



Eeij to the Species. 



a. Breast and rump grey. 



a' . Smaller : crown greenish hronze with steel- 

 blue gloss, or bluish ashy with metallic 

 gloss. 

 a". Upper neck and back uniform with the 



rump, i. e. ashy grey coronata, p. 512. 



h". Upper neck and back greenish bronze. 

 a'". Smaller : under tail - coverts almost 



white loncjipennis, p. 614. 



h'". Larger: under tail-coverts dirty greyish 



white %callacei, p. 515. 



b'. Very large : crown deep steel-blue mystacea, p. 516. 



h. Breast aud rump bronze coniata, p. 617. 



1. Macropteryx coronata. 



Hirundo coronata, Tick. J. As. Soc. Beng. ii. p. 580 (1833). 



Macropteryx coronatus, Tick. J. As. Soc. Bene/, xv. p. 21 (1846) ; 

 Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. Beny. p. 87 (1849) ; Layard, Ann. i<f 

 Mar/. Nat. Hist. 1853, p. IQ7 ;' Fairb. Stray Feath. iv. p. 254 

 (1867) ; Wardl. Ramsai/, Ibis, 1877, p. 458 ; Salv. Cat. Strickl. 

 Coll. p. 373 (1882); Gates, B. Bnrm. ii. p. 12 (1883); id. ed. 

 Hume's Nests ^Eygs Ind. B. p. 30 (1890). 



Macropteryx longipennis, Jerd. Madr. Journ. 1840, p. 236. 



Dendrocbelidon schisticolor, Bj). Consj). i. p. 66 (1850). 



Dendrocbelidon coronatus (-a), Gould, B. Asia, i. pi. 21 (1859) ; 

 Jerd. B. India, i, p. 185 (1862) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1865, p. 67 ; id. J. f. O. 

 1867, p. 141 ; Beavan, Ibis, 1865, p. 405, 1869, p. 405 ; Gray, 

 Iland-l. i. p. 65 (1869) ; Iloldsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 420 (Ceylon) ; 

 Ball, Stray Feath. ii. p. 384 (1874) ; Hume, Stray Feath. ii. p. 469 

 (Tenasserim) (1874) ; id. ibid. iii. p. 45 (1875) ; Fairb. Stray Feath. 

 V. p. 393 (Palani II.) (1877) ; Ball, ibid. vii. p. 202 (Godareri) ; 

 Leyge,B. Ceylon, p. 328 (1878); Binyh. Stray Feath. vii. p. 192 



