88 CAPRIMULGINE. 
- Of*a glossy cinereous-brown or mouse-brown color, darkest on 
the head, wings, and tail, and tinged with steel-blue or green, 
paler beneath. 
The Edible-nest Swiftlet is a hot weather visitant to the 
Vingorla Rocks, where it breeds; it has not been recorded from, 
any other part of our district. ; 
Genvs, Dendrochelidon, Boie. 
Hallux posterior, not reversible ; tarsus short, naked, or feather- 
ed; wings very long, the first two feathers sub-equal; tail long, 
forked ; head crested. 
Dendrochelidon coronata, Tick. 
104.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 185; Butler, Deccan ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 880; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central 
India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 60. ; 
THE INDIAN CRESTED SWIFT. 
Length, 9 to 10; expanse, 14 to 15°7; wing, 6:05 to 635; 
tail, 3:16 to 5°25 ; tarsus, 0°28; bill from gape, 0°7 to 0°8. 
Bill black ; irides deep-brown ; legs blue-black ; soles of feet 
reddish-white. 
Above bluish-grey, somewhat darker on the head, clearer on 
the back and rump, and glossed throughout with greenish ; 
wings anteriorly with a slight purple gloss; beneath pale 
ashy, whitening on the middle of the belly and lower tail- 
coverts; ear-coverts ferruginous in the male, (connected 
with the chin by a line of the same color), black in the female, 
with a whitish line bordering the throat. 
The Indian Crested Swift is common at and near Mhow in 
Central India, and has also been obtained along the Sahyadri 
range; it has not been recorded from any other portion of the 
region. 
Famity, Caprimulgide, Vigors. 
Bill small or moderate, (large in a few), weak, curved ; gape very 
wide, extending below the eyes, generally with numerous and 
strong bristles ; wings, and their coverts, long ; tail moderate, or 
long, of ten feathers ; tarsus short, scutellate, often feathered in 
front ;, feet feeble ; hallux in some reversible ; head broad, flat ;, 
plumage soft, light, mottled ; eyes large ; of nocturnal habits. 
Sus-FAMILY, Caprimulgine. 
Bill small, weak, flexible ; nostrils tubular ; wings long, usually 
the second quill longest ; tail usually long; lateral toes short, 
equal or nearly so; middle toe long with the claw pectinated 
on the inner margin ; hallux short, sometimes reversible. . 
Genus, Caprimulgus, Lin. 
Bill very short, flexible, broad at base, compressed and bent 
