﻿DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SWIFTLET FROM MOUNT 

 KINA BALU, BORNEO 



By CHARLES W. RICHMOND 



In the small collection of birds presented to the l". S. National 

 Museum by Messrs. Goss and Dodge, and obtained by them during 

 their recent expedition to Mount Kina Balu, north Borneo, is a 

 single example of a small swiftlet that I cannot identify with any 

 described species. It is most nearly related to Collocalia linchi, but 

 differs from it in being considerably smaller, and in having rather 

 duller upper parts, with a different shade of gloss (very like the 

 color of the upper surface of C. troglodytes). The specimen has 

 every appearance of being adult and full grown, and as there is 

 no individual in our series of C. linchi that approaches it, I take 

 the liberty of presenting the following description: 



COLLOCALIA DODGEI n. sp. 



Type.— Adult, No. 191. ,575, U. S. N. M., Mount Kina Balu, 

 Borneo, spring of 1904; George H. Goss and H. D. Dodge. Upper 

 parts dusky black, with slight greenish reflections ; wings, tail, and 

 upper tail-coverts darker, with a slight bluish gloss ; sides of head, 

 chin, throat, breast, and sides of body dark mouse gray, the feathers 

 of the middle of the breast and sides with whitish edges ; a partly 

 concealed loral spot white; lower breast and abdomen white, the 

 feathers with dusky bases ; under tail-coverts blackish, edged with 

 white, the shorter ones conspicuously so ; under wing-coverts black- 

 ish, with a faint gloss, the inner feathers narrowly edged with white. 



Wing, 90 ; tail, 33 ; tarsus, 8 mm. 



Collocalia linchihzs been recorded from Kina Balu by Dr. Sharpe, 1 

 who studied the collections made there by Whitehead ; but the present 

 bird cannot be matched, either in size or color, by any specimen of 

 C. linchi in the National Museum collection.- A young example of 

 C. linchi recently received from the Philippines (collected on Min- 



1 Ibis, 1890, p. 23. 



- The following localities are represented in the National Museum series 

 of this species: Nicobars, Mergui Archipelago, Pagi Islands (west Sumatra), 

 Linga Island, the Natunas, and Philippines. 



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