HANDBOOK 



TO THE 



BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 



Order II. MACKOCHIEES. 



Family CYPSELID^. 



Subfamily CYPSELIN^. 



Genus CYPSELUS, Illiger. 



401. CYPSELUS PACIFICUS. 

 THE WHITE-RUMPED BARRED SWIFT. 



Hirundo pacifica, Lath. Ind. Orn. Suppl. ii. p. Iviii. Cypselus vittatus, Jard. 

 $ Selby, III. Orn. iv. pi. 39 ; Sivinhoe, Ibis, 1863, p. 253. Cypselus pacificus, 

 Sclater, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 599 ; Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 119; Bl B. Burm. p. 84 ; 

 Hume, S. F. iii. p. 43; David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 69 ; Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi. 

 p. 48 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 84 ; Inglis, S. F. ix. p. 246. 



Description. Male and female. A blackish spot in front of the eye; the 

 whole upper plumage and ear-coverts varying from dark brown to blackish, 

 each feather very narrowly edged with whity brown ; a band across the 

 rump white with brown shafts ; tail and wings blackish ; sides of the bead 

 and neck like the upper plumage ; chin and throat white, the shafts dark ; 

 cheeks, sides of the throat and the whole lower plumage with the under 

 wing- co verts brown, each feather fringed with white and subterminally 

 darker brown ; the white of the throat merges gradually into the sur- 

 rounding brown parts ; with age the narrow pale tippings to the upper 

 plumage have a tendency to disappear, and the fringes below to become 

 broader. 



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