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upper and under tail-coverts, fine glossy black ; wings black, paler 
beneath, the upper coverts margined with glossy black, the lower 
wing-coverts dusky black ; tail black, fringed externally with glossy 
black ; a band of white across the rump ; throat, breast, abdomen, 
hind parts of flanks, and vent, pure white ; fore part of flanks black ; 
tarsi and toes covered with white plumes ; claws pale fleshy ; biU 
black. Length from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail in., 
of wing 3| in., of tail 1| in., bill to front in., to gape -{-^ in. ; height 
from chin to front i in. ; breadth at front in. ; tarse in. ; middle 
toe and claw in. ; hind ditto -/q in. 
This interesting bird difiers from the type of the genus Chelidon 
by its smaller and more robust bill, and by its short and nearly even 
tail, the wings also being shorter; from Cotyle it is at once dis- 
tinguished by its plumed feet. 
Genus Chelidon, Boie, Isis (1822), p, 550. 
622. CHELIDON URBICA, Linn. Sp. 
Hirundo urbica. Linn., S. N. I. p. 344. Lath.^ Hist. 
YII. p. 283. Myth, Cat. B, Mus. A. S. Beng, 
p. 31. 
Chelidon urbica, Boie, Isis (1822),^. 550. G. B. Gray, 
Gen. of Birds, I. p. ; Cat. B. Brit. Mus. pt. 2, 
p. 31. Bonap., C. G. Av. p. 343. 
Hirundo lagopoda, Ballas, Zoogr., I. p. 532. 
Chelidon rupestris et C. fenestrarum, Brehm.^ yo^9* 
Beutschl. I. p. 140. 
The Common Martin, LatJi. 
Hab. Europe, N. Asia, Africa ; rare in S. India. 
a. England. Presented by John Gould, Esq. 
Subfam. CTPSELINA. 
Genus Cypselus, Illiger {p. 106). 
623. CYPSELUS VITTATUS, Jardine et Selhy. 
Cypselus vittatus, Jard. et Selhy, III. Orn. 2nd ser. t. 39. 
G. B. Gray, Gen. of Birds, I. p. 54. Blyth, Cat. B. 
Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 85. Bonap., C. G. Av. p. 65. 
Cypselus australis, apud Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. XI. p. 886. 
A. Pinang. Presented by Dr. Cantor, April, 1854. 
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