180 CYPSELID7E. 



1086. Macropteryx coronata. The Indian Crested Swift. 



Hirundo coronata, Tickell, J. A. 8. E. ii, p. 580 (1833). 

 Macropteryx coronata, Btyth, J. A. 8. B. xv, p. 21 ; id. Cat. p. 87 ; 



Layard, A. M. N. H. (2) xii, p. 167 ; Fairbank, 8. F. iv, p. 254 ; 



Blyth fy Wald. Birds Burm. p. 86 ; Wardl.-Rams. Ibis, [1877, 



p. 458; Gates, B. B. ii, p. 12 ; id. in Hume's N. $ E. 2nd ed. iii, 



p. 36; Hartei't, Cat. B. M. xvi, p. 512. 

 Dendrochelidon coronata, Jerdon, B. I. i, p. 185 ; Beavan, Ibis, 1865, 



p. 405 ; 1869, p. 405; Blanf. J. A. 8. B. xxxviii, pt. 2, p. 169; 



Hume, J. A. S. B. xxxix, pt. 2, p. 114 ; Ball, 8. F. ii, p. 384 ; vii, 

 '. F. vi, p. 51 ; Legge, Birds Ceyl. p. 328 ; 

 'Hume, Cat. no. 104 ; Vidal, 8. F. ix, p. 48 ; Butler, ibid. p. 380 ; 



Parker, ibid. p. 476 ; Davidson, 8. F. x, p. 294 ; Terry, ibid. p. 470 ; 

 Swinhoe fy Barnes, Ibis, 1885, p. 60 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 88 ; 

 Littledale, Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. i, p. 196. 



Fig. 52. Head of M. coronata, j. 



Coloration. Male. Upper plumage and sides of neck, throat, 

 breast, and flanks bluish ashy ; sincipital crest and upper wing- 

 coverts darker and glossed with bluish green ; wing and tail- 

 feathers dark brown with a green gloss; a very narrow white 

 superciliary line ; lores velvety black ; ear- coverts and a moustacbial 

 stripe from them to the chin chestnut ; chin the same but paler ; 

 abdomen and lower tail-coverts white, which passes gradually into 

 the grey of the breast and flanks. 



Female without any chestnut ; ear-coverts blackish grey, bordered 

 below by a narrow whitish stripe from the gape ; chin grey like 

 the throat and breast. 



Young barred ; the feathers of the upper plumage with broad 

 brownish-grey borders, white at the edge, those of the lower parts 

 with brown subterminal bars. 



Bill black ; iris dark brown ; eyelids plumbeous ; legs pinkish 

 brown (Oates). 



Length about 9-5; tail 5-25 to end of outer, 1-75 to end of 

 middle feathers ; wing 6-2 ; tarsus -4. 



Distribution. The better wooded parts of India and Ceylon, and 



throughout Burma, except in Southern Tenasserim; also in Siam. 



1 This Swift occurs along the base of the Himalayas as far west as 



Dehra Dun ; it is wanting in the Punjab, Sind, and the parts of 



