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ACANTHYLLIS CAUDACUTA. 



(NEEDLE-TAILED SWIFT.) 



Hirundo caudacuta, Lath. Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. lvii. (1801). 



Hirundo ciris, Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso- As. i. p. 541. no. 160 (1811). 



Hirundo fusca, Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. x. p. 1S3 (1817). 



Chcetura australis, Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 2, p. 76 (1826). 



Chcetura fusca, Steph, ut supra (1826). 



Acanthylis {Hirundo spinicauda, Temm.), Boie, Isis, 1826, p. 971. 



Chcetura macroptera, Swains. Zool. 111. 2nd ser. i. pi. 42 (1829). 



Chcetura nudipes, Hodgs. J. A. Soc. Beng. v. p. 779 (1836). 



Hirundapus, Hodgs. (Chcetura nudipes), torn. cit. p. 780 (1836). 



Pallene, Less. (Cypselus giganteus, Temm.), Compl. Buff. viii. p. 493 (1837). 



Cypselus leuconotus, Delessert. Mag. Zool. 1840, Ois. pi. 20. 



Acanthylis caudacuta (Lath.), G. R. Gray, Ann. Nat. Hist. xi. p. 194 (1843). 



Pallene macroptera (Swains.), Boie, Isis, 1844, p. 168. 



Pallene caudacuta (Lath.), Boie, ut supra. 



Pallene leuconota (Deless.), Boie, ut supra. 



Acanthylis nudipes (Hodgs.), G. R. Gray, Gen. of B. i. p. 55 (1845). 



Hemiprocne leuconotus (Deless.), Struebel, Isis, 1848, p. 362. 



Chcetura caudacuta (Lath.), Gould, Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 103 (1865). 



Hirundapus nudipes (Hodgs.), Gould, Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 103 (1865). 



Hirundapus caudacuta (Lath.), G. R. Gray, Hand-1. of B. i. p. 67. no. 770 (1869). 



Hirundapus nudipes (Hodgs.), G. R. Gray, torn. cit. p. 67. no. 770 (1869). 



Hirundapus ciris (Pall.), G. R. Gray, torn. cit. p. 67. no. 771 (1869). 



Acanthyllis caudacuta (Lath.), Newton, Proc. Zool. Soc. Jan. 6, 1880. 



Figurce notabiles. 

 Swainson, I. c. ; Delessert, I. c. ; Gould, B. of Austr. pi. x. 



Ad. fronte, mento et gula albis : pileo, nucha et capitis lateribus nigricantibus viridi-cseruleo nitentibus : dorso 

 et uropygio fuscis, illo centraliter fusco-albido : supracaudalibus et cauda nigris viridi nitentibus, rec- 

 tricum scapis versus apicem nudis et acuminatis : alis nigris viridi-cseruleo nitentibus, secuudariis 

 intimis in pogonio interno albis : pectore et abdomine fuliginoso-fuscis, hypochondrias imis albo et nigro 

 immixtis, crisso et subcaudalibus albis : rostro nigro : pedibus livido-purpureis : iride fusca. 



Adult Male (Himalayas) . Forehead white ; crown, nape, and sides of the head dusky black glossed with 

 bottle-green, back and rump brown, darkest on the sides of the back and on the lower rump, becoming 

 pale whity brown on the centre of the back ; upper tail-coverts and tail black glossed with bottle-green, 

 the latter with the terminal portions of the shafts naked and pointed, forming spinous tips ; wings 

 black glossed with bottle-green, the innermost secondaries with the inner webs white ; chin, throat, 



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