88 CAPBIMULGIN^. 



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Of a glossy cinereous-brown or mouse-brown color, darkest on. 

 the head, wings, and tail, and tinged with steel-blue or green, 

 paler beneath. 



The Edible -nest Swiftlet is a hot weather visitant to the 

 Vingorla Rocks, where it breeds ; it has not been recorded from 

 any other part of our district. 



GENUS, Dendrochelidon, Bole. 



Hallux posterior, not reversible ; tarsus short, naked, or feather- 

 ed ; wings very long, the first two feathers sub-equal ; tail long, 

 forked ; head crested. 



Dendrochelidon coronata, Tick. 



/ 104. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 185; Butler, Deccan ; 

 vUfS Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 380 ; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central 

 . India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 60. 



^Ai/^K7 ^ HE I NDIAN CRESTED SWIFT. 



7 Length, 9 to 10 ; expanse, 14 to 157; wing, 6 '05 to 6'35 ; 

 / tail, 3-16 to 5-25 ; tarsus, 0'28 ; bill from gape, 07 to 0'8. 



Bill black ; irides deep-brown ; legs blue-black ; soles of feet 

 reddish-white. 



Above bluish-grey, somewhat darker on the head, clearer on 

 the back and rump, and glossed throughout with greenish ; 

 wings anteriorly with a slight purple gloss ; beneath pale 

 ashy, whitening on the middle of the belly and lower tail- 

 coverts ; ear-coverts ferruginous in the male, (connected 

 with the chin by a line of the same color), black in the female, 

 with a whitish line bordering the throat. 



The Indian Crested Swift is common at and near Mhow in 

 Central India, and has also been obtained along the Sahyadri 

 range ; it has not been recorded from any other portion of the 

 region. 



FAMILY, Caprimulgidae, Vigors. 



Bill small or moderate, (large in a few), weak, curved ; gape, very 

 wide, extending below the eyes, generally with numerous and 

 strong bristles ; wings, and their coverts, long ; tail moderate, or 

 long, of ten feathers ; tarsus short, scutellate, often feathered in 

 front ; feet feeble ; hallux in some reversible ; head broad, flat ; 

 plumage soft, light, mottled ; eyes large ; of nocturnal habits. 



SUB-FAMILY, Caprimulginae. 



Bill small, weak, flexible ; nostrils tubular ; wings long, usually 

 the second quill longest ; tail usually long ; lateral toes short, 

 equal or nearly so ; middle toe long with the claw pectinated 

 on the inner margin ; hallux short, sometimes reversible. 



GENUS, Oaprimulgus, Lin. 



Bill * very short, flexible, broad at base, compressed and bent 



