1846.] or Little Knoivn Species of Birds. 21 



three species, at present not well determined (vide XIV, 208*) : — 3, 

 the C. monticolus group, of which the males have their two outer tail- 

 feathers wholly white to near the tips : also apparently three species, — C. 

 monticolus, — another allied to this in Scinde, — and C. affinis, Horsf., of 

 the Malay countries, which last merely differs from C. monticolus in its 

 smaller size, and the greater admixture of black on the upper- parts, 

 more especially upon the crown. Length of wing six inches and a half, — 

 that of C monticolus being an inch more, — and the rest in proportion. 

 The Scindian species (?) is figured in one of Sir A. Burnes' drawings, as 

 mentioned in Vol. XIV, note to p. 547. It would appear to be still more 

 uniformly coloured in the drawing than C. monticolus, of a light fulves- 

 cent-grey or sandy hue, with dark pencillings, but no scapulary pale 

 streak nor white mark crossing the breast ; tail closed, but its middle 

 feathers (which alone are seen in the drawing) have narrower cross 

 lines than in C. monticolus ; the lower parts are represented somewhat 

 paler than the upper, as is also the inner anterior margin of the wing 

 (towards the body). Length of wing six inches and a quarter (not 

 " nine inches and a quarter," as formerly misprinted). Should this be 

 verified as a distinct species, it might bear the name C. arenarius, in 

 allusion to the sandy soil which its colour would certainly denote that 

 it frequented, and which is a very prevalent hue of the birds and other 

 animals from Scinde, as M. Temminck has remarked of those from 

 Egypt.f 



Cypselidcs. Macropteryx coronatus ; Hirundo coronata, Tickell, J. 

 A. S. II, 580. This has hitherto been undistinguished from M. klecho 

 (Horsf.,) v. longipennis, (Tern.,) of the Malay countries, which in India 

 is represented by the present species. The two are, however, obviously 



* The true C. indicus extends its range to Malacca. It is not rare in the Calcutta 

 Botanic Garden. — C. monticolus I lately observed in a patch of open jungle, surrounded 

 by cultivated fields. — C. pulcher, A. Hay, Madr. Journ. No. XXXI, p, 161, = Lyn- 

 cornis Temminckii, Gould. The Society has specimens of this bird from Malacca and 

 Java. 



f The Norwegian collection before referred to, contains a female of C. europceus ; 

 and the resemblance of this to some specimens of C. indicus is extremely close : but 

 the latter may always be distinguished by having the tarsi wholly feathered ; by the 

 abdominal region being much less rayed ; and the males by having a white spot on four 

 of the primaries, and upon the four outer tail-feathers on each side. The Society has 

 also a Tenasserim specimen of undoubted C. macrourus, which very much resembles 

 both C. indicus and C*. europceus ; but may be distinguished from the latter by having 

 the tarse wholly feathered, and by the white basal portion of its rictal bristles. 



