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HIRUNDINIDiE. 



Green-black Swift with the quills and tail obscure ; the back 

 griseous on the lower part ; the body beneath ash-coloured. 



Hirundo Klecho. Linn. Trans. {Horsf.) xiii. ^. 143. — Cypselus 

 longipennis. Temm. PI. Col. 83 .y^ 1. 



Inhabits Java. Length eight inches and a half. 

 The bird described by Temminck has the top of the 

 head, the nape, the sides of the neck, the top of the 

 back, the scapulars, and the lesser wing-coverts very 

 brilliant deep-green : the wings and tail are glossed 

 with bluish-green, the former tint predominating as 

 the bird advances in age : the middle wing-feathers 

 nearest the body are white or whitish : all the undef 

 parts of the body are ash, with the exception of the 

 middle of the belly and the lower tail-coverts, which 

 are white : the lower part of the back and the rump 

 are ashy-green. The male has a chesnut spot on the 

 ear-feathers. Dr. Horsfield observes that in young 

 birds the abdomen is whitish, and the wing-coverts 

 are banded with white at their extremities : the fea- 

 thers covering the back and the quill feathers are 

 tipped with brownish-grey. 



Sp. 7. Cy. comatus. Temm. PI. Col. 268. 



Cy? cristatus cupreo-viridis ; tectricibus alarum, remig'ibus rec- 

 tricibusque saturate viridibus ; liiied supra infrdque oculoSj tec- 

 tricibusque alarum majoribiis apice, albis. 



Crested Swift ? of a copper-green ; with the wing-coverts, quills, 

 and tail-feathers dark-green; a line above and beneath the 

 eyes, and tip of the greater wing-coverts, white. 



Inhabits Sumatra. Length about six inches : un- 

 like the other species of the genus, this is adorned with 

 beautiful colours, and is farther distinguished by the 

 feathers on the head being elongated and decom- 



