511 



CYPSELIDiE. 



m' . (S imm. sk. 



«'. 2 ad. sk. 

 o'. S ad.; p' .S 



imm. ; q-t' . 2 



ad. sk. 

 «'. 2 ad. sk. 

 v' , iv . (S ad. ; x' . 



2 ad.sk. 

 y', z'. d" ad. ; 



a". 2 ad. sk. 

 b" . S ad. sk. 



c''. c? ad. sk. 

 d" ,e". 2 ad. sk. 

 /'. c? ad. ; .9". cJ 



imm. ; h" , i" . 



2 ad. sk. 

 k". 2 ad. sk. 



/". 2 ad. sk. 



Base of Palani Hills, June 25 



{Fairbank). 

 Madras. 

 Ceylon, April and Oct. (//. 



Nevill Sf Chapmcm). 



Ceylon, Nov. {Kart BroUiera). 

 Ceylon, Dec. 



Karen Nee, Marcli 17 ( W. 

 Ramsay). 



Thayetmyo, Nov. ( W. Mam- 

 say). 



Thayetmyo. 



Moiiluiain. 



Tonghoo, Feb., July, Dec. ( W. 

 Ramsay). 



Attaran R., Tenass., March 8 



( W. Davison). 

 Salween Distr., February 17 



{W. Davison). 



Tweeddale Coll. 



Jardine CoU. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Col.W.V. Legge [P.]. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



Gates Coll. 

 Pinwill Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



2. Macropteryx longipennis. 



Hirundo longipennis, Rajin. Bull. Soc. Philom. iii. p. 153 (1804). 



HLrundo klecho, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 143 (1821). 



Cypselus longipennis, Temm. PI. Col. 83. fig. 1, text (1823). 



Cy^pselus klecho, Stej^h. Gen. Zool. xiii. p. 81 (1826). 



Macropteryx longipennis, Swaiyis. Zool. III. ii. pi. 47 (1832) ; Blythy 

 Cat. Mus. As. Soc. B. p. 322 (1849) ; S/iarpe, Mis, 1876, p. 33 ; 

 Tweedd. Ibis, 1877, p. 299 ; Salvin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 373 

 (1882) ; Vorderm. Nat. Tijdsvhr. Nederl. Ind. 1883, p. 213 ; Oates, 

 B. Bunnah, ii. p. 13 (1883) ; Hartert, J. f. 0. 1889, p. 359 (Suma- 

 tra) ; id. Kat. Vogels. Senckenh. Mus. p. 118, note (1891). 



Macropteryx klecho, Gray, List Gen. B. p. 8 (1840) ; Blyth, Cat. B. 

 Mus. As. Soc. Benrj. p. 87 (1849) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 212. 



Dendrochelidon klecho, Boie, Isis, 1844, p. 165 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 66 

 (1850) ; Horsf. Sf Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. L Comp.i. p. 110 (1854)j 

 Gould, B. Asia, i. pi. 22 (1859); Bernst. J.f. O. 1859, p. 183, 

 pi. ii. (nest and eggs) ; id. J. f. O. 1860, p. 268 ; Cab. ^ Heine, 

 Mus. Hein. iii. p. 83 (1860) ; 'Scl. P. Z. S. 1865, p. 616 ; id. J.f. O. 

 1867, p. 140 ; Gray, Hand-l. i. p. 64 (1869). 



Dendrochelidon longipennis, Salvad. Uec. Borneo, p. 122 (1874) ; 

 Hume c^ Davison, Stray Feath. vi. p. 52 (Tenasserim)(1878); Hume, 

 Stray Feath. viii. p. 47 (Malay Penins.) (1879) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, 

 p. 250 (Borneo) ; id. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 334 ; id. Ibis, 1890, p. 24. 



Adult male. Lores black; forehead, crown, nape, back, tail, 

 scapulars, and wing-coverts greenish bronze, generally with metallic 

 blue edges to the feathers, this latter colour being sometimes very 

 prevalent, sometimes entirely absent ; rump and upper tail-coverts, 

 except the longest, grey ; tips of scapulars and innermost secon- 

 daries whitish grey ; wings brown with steel-blue gloss ; ear-coverts 

 pure chestnut ; chin, throat, breast, upper abdomen, and sides of 



