CHINESE SWIFT. 

 (Cypselus sinensis.) 



CY. fuscus subtus griseo-rufescens, pileo rufo, gula orUtisque 



albis. 

 Fuscous Swift, beneath greyish red, with the top of the head 



rufous ; the throat and orbits white. 

 Hirundo sinensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 1021. Lath. Ind. Or*. 



2. 583. 35. 



Le Grand Martinet de la Chine. Sonner. Voy. Ind. 2. 199. 

 Chinese Swift. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 586. 35. 



THE Chinese Swift was first described by Sonne- 

 rat, in his Voyage to India : it is nearly a foot in 

 length : beak and irides blue grey: top of the head 

 pale rufous : hind parts of the head, back, wings, 

 and tail, brown : orbits of the eye white : super- 

 cilia brown, which colour passes backwards, and 

 blends into that of the hind part of the neck: throat 

 white : breast and belly pale rufous grey : legs 

 short, and of a blue grey colour : wings long : 

 tail forked, and as long as the wings. Inhabits 

 China. 



WHITE-BELLIED SWIFT. 

 (Cypselus melba.) 



CY. griseo^fuscus, gula abdomineque albis, 

 Greyish-brown Swift, with the throat and abdomen white. 

 Hirundo Melba. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 345. 11.- Gmel. Syst. Ntf. 



1. 1023. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 582. 33. 

 Hirundo majorhispanica. Briss, 2. 504. 11. 



