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9. Notice or A New INDIAN SwALLow. 
By Freperic Moors, Assist. East Inv. Comp. Museum. 
(Aves, Pl. LXIII.) 
The subject that I beg to lay before the Meeting this evening, is 
a new form belonging to the family Hirundinide, lately collected in 
Nepal and presented to the Museum of the East India Company by 
B. H. Hodgson, Esq., which is allied to, but certainly distinct from, 
the genus Chelidon, and for which the following anagrammatic name 
is proposed. 
DELICHON (nov. gen.). 
Gen. Char. Bill short, thick, robust, gape rather wide, the cul- 
men rounded, the nostrils basal, lateral and rounded. Wings rather 
long, with the first quill the longest. Tail short, and emarginated or 
nearly even at the end. Tarsi longer than the middle toe, and clothed 
with plumes. Toes long and clothed with plumes, the inner shorter 
than the outer; the claws moderate and curved. 
Type, D. Nipalensis, Hodgs. n. sp. (Pl. LXIII.) 
Spec. Char. Top of the head, chin, cheeks, ear-coverts, nape, back, 
upper and under tail-coverts, fine glossy black ; wings black, paler 
beneath, the upper coverts fringed with glossy black, the under coverts 
dusky black ; tail black, fringed on the external webs with glossy 
black ; a band of white across the rump; throat, breast, abdomen, 
lower part of flanks and vent white, upper part of flanks black ; tarsi 
and toes covered with white plumes; claws pale flesh-colour ; bill 
black. 
Length from tip of the bill to the end of the tail, 33 inches; of 
wing, 32; of tail, 12; bill to front, 3,;; to gape, ;4,; height from 
chin to front, 1; breadth at front, 3,; tarse, 4; middle toe and 
claw, 25; hind toe, 35. 
Hab. Nepal. (No. 963. Hodgs. Catal.) 
This interesting bird differs from the type of the genus Chelidon 
by its smaller and more robust bill and by its shorter and even tail ; 
the wings also are shorter. From the genus Cotyle it is at once di- 
stinguished by its plumed feet. 
3. Noticre or some New Species OF BirDS CONTAINED IN THE 
Museum or THE Hon. East Inp1a Company. 
By Frepreric Moors, Assist. East Inv. Comp. Museum. 
Family Mervuip#, Vigors. 
Subfamily Trmautna, Vigors. 
Genus Pycroruis, Hodgson (1844). Chrysomma (Blyth), 
Hodgson (1845). 
1. Pycroruis tonerRrostRis, Hodgson. 
Forehead, crown, nape, back, rump, upper tail-coverts and tail 
rufous-brown, deepest on the crown, wings and tail, the last being 
