S9G CYPSELID/F. 



abdomen, vent and under tail coverts ; wing coverts metallic blue ; quills 

 brown, suffused with bluish green; tail metallic greenish-brown. 



The female differs in having the ear coverts black instead of chestnut, and 

 the chin and moustache ashy like the throat. Bill black : legs blue-black ; 

 irides brown. 



Length. 9 to 9-5 inches ; tail 5'2 to 5^5 ; wing 6-3 ; tarsus 0*3 ; bill from 

 gape o'8. 



Hab. Central and Southern India, the Malabar Coast, Wynaad, Mysore, 

 Southern Ghauts of Nellore and the whole of British Burmah. In the sub- 

 Himalayan tract, below Gurhwal and Kumaon, the Mandla districts of the 

 Central Provinces, and in Darjeeling, it is said to be extremely common and 

 to breed. The nest is a shallow half-saucer, composed of flakes of thin 

 bark agglutinated with saliva. Egg one only, pure white, a long almost cylin- 

 drical oval, 0-85 by O'$$. The breeding season lasts from April to June. 



969. Dendrochelidon longipennis (Rafm.\ Sahad., Ucc. 



Born. p. 122; Hume and Dav., Sir. F. vi. p. 52 ; Hu?ne, Sir. F. viii. p. 85. 

 Hirundo longipennis, Rafin., Soc. Philom. Bull iii. 1802, p. 153. Hirundo 

 klecho, Horsf., Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 143. Cypselus longipennis, Temm. 

 PL Col. 83, fig. I (descr. orig.) Dendrochelidon klecho, Sclaler, P. Z. S. 

 1865, p. 616. Macropteryx longipennis, Gates, B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 13. The 

 MALAYAN CRESTED TREE-SWIFT. 



Forehead, crown, nape, sides of the neck, back, scapulars, and upper wing 

 coverts metallic green, each feather more or less margined and edged with 

 blue, darker on the forehead and crown ; chin, throat, breast, upper abdomen, 

 sides of the body, rump, the smaller upper tail coverts and tips of scapulars 

 grey, the longer upper tail coverts greenish-brown ; lores and cheeks black ; 

 ear coverts chestnut; lower abdomen, vent and under tail coverts white; 

 quills brown, tinged with blue ; tertiaries whitish ; tail greenish at the base, 

 the rest blue. 



The female is distinguished by the ear coverts being a greenish brown 

 instead of chestnut, and the young by the upper plumage being tipped with 

 white. Bill black ; irides brown. 



Length. 9 to 9*2 inches; tail 4-5 ; wing 6*5 ; tarsus 0*4; bill from gape 

 07. 



Hab. Sumatra, Java, Borneo, the Malay Peninsula and Tenasserim. Gates 

 says in Tenasserim from the most southernmost point up to Mergui and 

 Nwalabo mountain. Like the preceding it affects forests and makes its nest 

 of moss and scraps of bark cemented with saliva. He adds (quoting 

 Bernstein, J. Fur. Orn. 1859, p. 183,) that the nest is so small, that the bird, 

 also like the last, sits upon the branch, and is able to cover the single large 

 white egg with only the end of her belly. 



