390 CYPSELID/E. 



Whole plumage dark blackish brown, except the head, back and abdomen, 

 \vhich is glossy black, and the rump white ; chin, throat and foreneck dull 

 white, with' brown shafts. Bill black ; trides dark brown ; legs brownish fleshy. 



Length $"j inches; tail 2-2; wing 5-3 to 5-5; tarsus 0-4; bill from 

 gape 0*8. 



Sad. Southern China, Cochin-China, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. Recorded 

 from throughout British Burmah and the Indo-Burmese countries, also Chanda 

 in North India and the Khasia hills. It was observed by Mr. Davison in the 

 south of Tenasserim, and by Gates between Pegu and Rangoon. 



956. Cypselus leuconyx, Biyth, J. A. s. B. xiv. P . 218 ; id., Cat. 



B. Mux. As. Soc. Beng. 424; Jerd., 2nd Suppl. Birds Cat. 255 bis ; id., 

 Birds of India \. p. 179; Hume, Sir. F. iii. p. 44. The WHITE CLAWED 

 SWIFT. 



Upper surface glossy blackish brown, darker on the head ; rump white, 

 chin and throat dirty white ; rest of under surface glossy brown, the feathers 

 fringed with whitish ; in some specimens a slight pale supercilium. Bill 

 black ; claws white, but not so in all specimens. 



Length. 6-2$ inches; tail 2-5 ; wing 6*25 ; tarsus 0*37. 



Hab. N.-W. Himalayas, the Deccan and Malabar. 



Dr. Stolickza says it occupies in summer the ranges of hills between the 

 outer ranges where C. ' affinis is abundant, and the higher and more interior 

 hills occupied by C. apus. 



957- CypselUS bataSSiensiS (Gray). C. palmarum, Gray and 

 Hardw.y III Ind. Zod. i. p. 35, fig. i. ; Jerd. t B. Ind. i. p. 180, No. 102. 

 The PALM SWIFT. 



Entire plumage glossy ashy brown or fuscous, darker on the wings and tail, 

 and more albescent on the under surface. Bill black ; irides brown ; feet 

 dusky reddish ; tail much forked, the inner feathers of the fork 1-25 inch 

 shorter than the outer ; primaries dark brown, the 1st shorter than the second, 

 and much pointed at the tip. 



Length. 5 to 5*5 inches ; tail 2'5 (outer feathers) ; wing 4*5. 



Hab. Throughout India in the more moist regions as the Malabar 

 Coast, Carnatic, the Northern Concan, Bengal, the central tableland and the 

 North- West Provinces ; in fact, wherever palms grow. Extends to Assam, 

 (Burmah ? Jerdori), and Ceylon. Hume says they nest solely on the " Tar" (or 

 toddy tree?), which he calls Borassusflabelliformis, on the under surface of 

 which it builds its nests. The eggs are long ovals, slightly compressed towards 

 one end and pure white. 



958 CypselUS infumatUS, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 602 ; Jerd., 

 Ibis, 1871, p. 355, pi. x. ; Hume, Nests and Eggs i. p. 88 ; Salvad., Ucc. 



