THE INDIAN GIANT SPINE-TAIL. 
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Subfamily CH^TURIN^. 
Genus HIRUNDINAPUS, Hodgs. 
404, HIRUNDINAPUS GIOANTEUS. 
THE GIANT SPINE-TAIL. 
Cypselus giganteus, Van Hass., Temm. PI. Col. 364. Chaetura gigantea, 
Sclater, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 608 (part.) ; Hume 8f Dav. 8. F. vi. p. 46 ; Hume, S. F. 
viii. p. 84. Hirundinapus giganteus, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 124 (part.). 
Description. — Male and female. Lores deep black; forehead^ crown^ 
nape^ hind neck, sides of the head and of the neck^ upper tail-coverts, 
wings and tail deep brown, almost black ; back, scapulars and rump pale 
brown ; entire lower surface uniform smoky brown ; lower tail-coverts 
white with black shafts ; the whole plumage more or less glossy. 
Length 9 inches, tail 3, wing 8, tarsus '7, bill from gape I 'I. The 
female is very slightly smaller. 
Mr. Davison procured one specimen of this bird at Malewoon, in the 
extreme south of Tenasserim, where it is probably only a straggler. 
It occurs in the Malay peninsula, Sumatra and Java, and possibly in 
Borneo. In Celebes it appears to be replaced by a race which is closely 
allied to H. indicus, and which Dr. Sclater has termed C. gigantea, var. 
celebensis. In Cochin China it is replaced by H. c o chine hinensis, Oustalet, 
a species which I have not been able to examine. I£ distinct, it is probably 
the bird which frequents China (David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 71). 
405. HIRUNDINAPUS INDICUS. 
THE INDIAN GIANT SPINE-TAIL. 
Acanthylis gigantea (Temm.), apud Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 172 ; Bl. ^ Wold. B. Burm. 
p. 84 ; Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 459. Chaetura indica, Hume, S. F. 
i. p. 471, ii. p. 155, iv. p. 286 ; Inglis, S. F. v. p. 17 ; Hume 8f Dav. S. F. vi. 
p. 46 ; Bourdillon, S. F. yii. p. 44 ; Hume, S.F. viii. p. 84. Chaetura gigantea, 
apud Legye, Birds Ceylon, p. 314. 
Description. — Male and female. Differs from the preceding in having the 
chin and throat whity brown and not concolorous with the remainder of 
the lower plumage, in having a large white spot between the lores and the 
nostrils_, and in having the brown of the back and rump paler. 
