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length of the recent bird, (i. e. making due allowance for the skin being inordinately 

 stretched lengthwise,) about eight inches and a half; of wing eight inches; and 

 middle tail-feathers, to their spiny points, two inches and five-eighths. Back dull 

 hair-brown, the head, neck, wings, and tail, dull iridescent black, and under-parts 

 brownish, tinged with the same, especially about the breast; under tail-coverts, and 

 line along the sides reaching to them, white ; and chin slightly albescent, the loral 

 feathers still less so. This description is taken from the Penang specimen ; the 

 Neilghierry one being a trifle less in length, its wing measuring seven inches and 

 a half, and tail two inches and five-eighths. The chin is whiter than in the other, 

 and the loral feathers are also white ; but there is no other difference. 



*Cypselus alpinus, vel melba : from the Neilghierries. 



*C. australis (?), Gould, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 146; or a closely allied species, having 

 the tail above half an inch shorter than is stated in the description cited : from 

 Penang. Length about six inches and a half, of wing seven inches, and outer tail- 

 feathers two inches and seven -eighths, the medial two inches and a quarter. General 

 colour dusky-brown overlaid with shining green-black, the feathers of the breast 

 and belly margined with whitish ; rump white, having dusky shafts to the feathers ; and 

 throat and fore-neck whitish, being similarly shafted. 



C. ? A specimen from the Deccan, only differing from the last in being 



smaller, generally somewhat browner, particularly on the head and nape, and in 

 having the abdominal feathers more slightly margined with whitish: the foot is, 

 however, so decidedly smaller, that I cannot regard it as the young of the preceding 

 species; bending the hind-toe backward, the span barely exceeds five-eighths of an 

 inch, whilst in the other it is fully seven-eighths of an inch. Length five inches 

 and a half, of wing six inches, and outer tail-feathers two inches and a half, the medial 

 an inch and three-quarters. 



C. affinis, Hardwicke and Gray. A Neilghierry specimen is also sent as different 

 from this, but which appears to me to be only the young of affinis. Length of wing 

 four inches and three-quarters, and of tail an inch and five-eighths. Colour more 

 brownish and less glossed than in the adult affinis. 



*C. concolor; Hirundo unicolor, Jerdon, Catalogue, but since correctly referred 

 in the Supplement to the latter to the present genus, wherein already a distinct C. 

 unicolor, from Madeira, has been figured and described by Messrs. Jardine and Selby, 

 in their * Illustrations of Ornithology,' PI. LXXXIII, for which reason I have altered 

 the specific name bestowed by Mr. Jerdon on the present species. 



*Hirundo domieola, Jerdon, Supplement. 



*H. urbica : from the Neilghierries. 



*H. inornata, Jerdon, Supplement. 



*H. concolor, Sykes. 



* Vinago aromatica, female ; being the V. affinis, Jerdon, Catalogue, where the 

 V. unicolor, Jerdon, is likewise the female of V. bicincta, Jerdon. 



Carpophaga cenea. 



*Ardea nigra, Vieillot. 



A. lepida, Iiorsfield. 



Porzana rufescens; Rallus rufescens, Jerdon: also met with in the vicinity of 

 Calcutta. 



