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Chest and upper breast dull olive-brown tinged with buff; 

 lower breast and abdomen orange-buff, becoming whitish on 

 the lower abdomen ; sides strongly washed with olive-brown, 

 becoming darker on the flanks ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries bright orange-buff, brighter than the breast. Iris 

 brown ; upper mandible brown, lower mandible orange : 

 feet deep raw-sienna, back of the tarsus gamboge. Total 

 length in the flesh 214 mm.; culmen 20; wing 110; 

 tarsus 28. 



Hab. Rhodesia. Cbirinda Forest. 



Type in the British Museum : 2 . Chirinda Forest, 1 7. vi. 06. 

 C. F. M. Swynnerton coll. 



Obs. There is a series of eleven skins of this Thrush in 

 the British Museum, all procured in the Chirinda Forest by 

 Mr. Swynnerton, in whose honour the species has been 

 named. 



Major H. H. Harington forwarded the description of a 

 new subspecies of Swift from the Northern Shan States, 

 which he proposed to call 



Cypselus pacificus cooki, subsp. n. 



Adult male. Similar to C. pacificus Lath., but smaller, 

 with the white band across the rump narrower, about 10 mm. 

 wide (instead of 15 mm.) ; only the feathers on the middle 

 of the throat white, with well-marked black shaft-stripes, 

 those on the sides of the throat black fringed with white, 

 producing a barred appearance ; the mantle deep glossy 

 black. Wing 170 mm. ; middle tail-feathers 51, lateral tail- 

 feathers 75. 



Hab. Northern Shan States. 



Type in the British Museum: $ . Goteik Caves, 2. vi. 12, 

 Presented by J. Pemberton Cook, Esq. 



Obs. This Swift, which is evidently a resident form of 

 C. pacificus, was found breeding in the Goteik Caves, 

 Northern Shan States, 2nd June, 1912. 



