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dry tree. The male lias at such times a curious sibilous note, 

 imitated b}' the syllables ' chifHe-chaffle, chiffle-chafEe,' &c., and 

 not very unlike the song of the Chimney Swallow. The Hos, or 

 Surka Coles, call it the Topee Hen or Crowned Swallow, and 

 assure me it lays three or four white eggs in holes in lofty 

 decayed sal trees ; but I have never seen nest or eggs." Further 

 south Mr. Jerdon observed this species " in high forest jungle in 

 the neighbourhood of hills. I have seen it," he adds, " in 

 Goomsoor, at the foot of the Nilgiris, and in various parts of the 

 jungle of the western coast." 



M. KLECHO ; Hirundo klecho, Horsfield; Cypselus long'ipennis. 

 Tern., figured in Swainson's Zool. 111., 2nd series, pi. 47. Outer 

 tail-feathers not passing beyond the tips of the wings ; ear-coverts 

 only of the male deep maroon ; crested crown, back and wings, 

 finely glossed with dark green, sometimes bronzed ; rump and 

 upper tail-coverts bluish grey, extending less up the back than in 

 M. coronatus ; under parts ash-gra}', passing to white on the 

 middle of belly and lower tail-coverts ; tertiaries albescent. In 

 the young the tertiaries are white-tipped ; the coronal feathers 

 have rufous tips; and those of at least the middle of the breast 

 are whitish, with subterminal dusky band.* Wing, (j|- in. ; middle 

 tail-feathers. If in. ; outermost, 3f in., passing the next by f in. 

 only. 



Inhabits the Malayan Peninsula, Sumatra, and Java. M. 

 comatus is said also to inhabit Sumatra, in which case its range 

 would probably extend into the Malayan Peninsula. 



Note. — As the European Cypselus apus (L.) is a common 

 summer visitant in Afghanistan, it should be looked for in the 

 N-W. Provinces of India. Two of the Indian species, Cypselus 

 ajfinis and C. balasiensis, do not migrate ; perhaps also Collocalia 

 fucij>haga in the Bay of Bengal ; but all the other Indian 

 Cypselidce appear to be migratory ; and the migrations of some of 

 them probably do not extend out of the country — Macropteryx 

 coronatus, for instance, which is well distinguished from its 

 Malayan affine, M. klecho. Again, we have the little-observed 



'' " In young birds the abdomen is whitish, and the wing-coverts are 

 banded with white at their extremities. The feathers covering the back and 

 the quill-feathers are tipped with brownish grey." (Horsfield) Linn. Tr. 

 xiii. 143. 



