CATALOGUE. 
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Syhes, P. Z. S. (1832), p. 83. Jerdon, Madr. 
Journ. L. S. XI. p. 225. G. B. Gray, Gen. of 
Birds, I. p. 54; Cat. B. Brit. Mus. II. p. 19. 
Sodgs., Cat. B. Nep. p. 54. Blyth, Journ. A. S. 
Beng. XIV. p. 212; Cat. B. IIus. A. S. Beng. 
p. 86. Bonap., C. G. Av. p. 65. 
Cjpselus nipalensis, Hodgs., Journ. A. S. Beng. Y. 
p. 780. 
Cypselus montanus, Jerd., Madr. Journ. L. >S'.XIII. p. 144. 
The Allied Swift, Gray. 
The White-rumped Swift, Jerd. 
Ababeel, Hind., Jerd., or Babeela, Tichell. 
HuwA-BiLBiLL KuKCHYA, Saharunporc, Boyle. 
A. B. Bootan. From Pemberton's Collection. 
c. Kumaon. From Captain R. Strachey's Collection. 
" The Ababeel, though of general distribution throughout the 
Peninsula, yet at the same time is so partially distributed as to have 
caused Colonel Sykes to remark : ' So rare in the Deccan, that I have 
only obtained tw^o specimens.' It is found in all districts of India ; 
but in these is often confined to a small tract in the neighbourhood 
of some few large pagodas, large old choultries, and other similar 
buildings. In the Carnatic it is common at Madras, at the rocky 
fort of Trichinopoly, and very numerous at the large pagodas of 
Madura, among w^hich their nests are thickly crowded. On the west 
coast I saw it on several occasions, chiefly among rocky hills, but 
only observed it twice through the whole length of the table-land 
from the Tapoor pass to Jaulnah ; and then but few in number. At 
this latter place, however, it was very common, breeding in some old 
choultries and other buildings. It seldom, I think, takes a very 
long range from its breeding-places. It builds its nest in company 
always, often thickly crowded together, placing them in corners and 
crevices of old buildings, and forming them of clay, profusely mixed 
with straw, grass, feathers, and other soft substances, of which they 
appear externally to be entirely composed. During the night they 
roost in their nests, four or five often occupying the same one, as I 
observed in the celebrated choultry at Ajunteh." — (Jerd^ Madr. 
Journ. L. S. XI. p. 235.) 
Mr. Hodgson says, " This is the common Swift of the central 
regions of Nepal, where it remains all the year, building under 
