212 Little known species of Birds. [No. 159. 



p. 25. Himalayan ; and said to be the same as the Australian species, 

 though 1 question if specimens have ever been actually compared. 

 Cypselus, Illiger. Ordinary Swifts. 



1. C. melba, (L.) : C. alpinus, Tem. Neilgherries, Travancore, &c. ; 

 also Southern Europe. 



2. C. pacificus (? Lath.): C. australis (?), Gould, Proc. Zoo/. Soc. 

 1839, p. 146 ; vide J. A. S. xi, 886. Penang. 



3. C. leuconyx, nobis. Closely allied to the last, and described 

 from a Deccan specimen in J. A. S. xi, 886 : a Calcutta specimen 

 (being the only one which I have yet heard of) flew into the window of 

 a house in Garden Reach, and was obligingly presented to the Society 

 by Willis Earle, Esq. It minutely agrees with my description of the 

 other, except that the wing is a quarter of an inch longer. The 

 marked difference in size of foot from the preceding species forbids 

 their being considered of one kind.* 



4. C. offinis, Gray, Hardwicke's ///. Ind Zool : C. nipalensis, Hodg- 

 son, J. A. S. v. 780. India generally ; very common about Calcutta. 



5. C. palmarum, Gray, ibid. India generally ; common. 

 Collocalia, G. R. Gray. 



1. C. unicolor, (Jerdon): Cypselus co?icolor, nobis, J. A. S, xi, 886. 

 Darjeeling ; Neilgherries. 



2. C. esculenta, (Lin.) Malay coasts : common in the Nicobar 

 islands ; and Captain Phayre informs me that " it is to be had on the 

 rocky islands off the southern part of the coast of Arracan :" it also 

 (or possibly the preceding species, vide p. 210,) breeds along the Mala- 

 bar coast, and so far northward as the Vingorla rocks. 



Macropteryx, Swainson. 



M. klecho, (Raffles): Cypselus longipennis, Tem, Central and 

 Southern India, and Malay countries. 



Mr. Swainson gives, as a second species, the Sumatran Cypselus coma • 



tus, Tem., which I have not seen ; and as a third, C. mystaceus y 



(Lesson,) who applies the name Pallestre to the genus. 



July \2th, 1845. E. B. 



* There is a Cypselus vittatus, from China, figured in the 2nd series of Jardine 

 and Selby's ' Illustrations of Ornithology,' which I believe is allied to C. pacificus (?) 

 and C. leuconyx ; but it has the tail forked to the depth of an inch. 



(To be continued.) 



