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GENUS COLLOCALIA G. E. Gray. 
The Edible-nest Swifts are birds of small to almost the smallest size (not 
regarding the long wing) , furnished wdth a square tail of ten normally shaped 
feathers, bare tarsus and toes with the ordinary number of phalanges. They 
are cave-dwellers. Some of the species form their nests entirely of their own 
glutinous saliva, others make use of various materials, but probably use saliva 
for securing them and attaching the nest. Two white eggs. The number of 
species is uncertain; in 1897 Hartert recognised 14 and some subspecies. They 
range from India to Australia and occur on some of the islands of the Indian 
and Pacific Oceans. 
^ 105. COLLOCALIA FUCIPHAGA (Thunb.). 
Indian Edible-nest Swiftlet. 
Mr. Hartert (1892) separates as a subspecies C.fuciphaga (Me Cl ell.) 
of the Himalayas. The present article relates only to the more typical forms. 
12/z. 
a. Hirundo fuciphaga (I) Thunb., Act. Holm. 1772, XXXEH, 151, pi. IV. 
h. Hirundo vanicorensis (I) Quoy et Haim., Voy. Astrol., ZooL 1830, I, 206, pi. XH, f. 3. 
c. Collocalia unicolor (Jerd.), (1) Hume, Str. E. 1876, IV, 374; (2) Oates, ed. Hume’s 
Xests & Eggs Ind. B. 1890, IH, 28. 
d. Collocalia nidifica (1) Gray, Gen. B. I, 1845, 55; (2)^ Bernst., J. f. 0. 1859, 112 — 118; 
(5)Bosenb., Malay. Archip. 1878, 271; (4) Salvad., Atti Ac. Sc. Tor. 1880, XV, 344. 
Collocalia fuciphaga (1) Bp., C. B. 1855, XLI, 977; (2) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, VTH, 46; 
(3) Salvad., Cat. Ucc. Borneo 1874, 120; (4) id., Orn. Pap. 1880, I, 544; (V) Meyer, 
VogelskeL pt. V, 1883, 36, pi. 46, fig. 2; (6) Pryer, P. Z. S. 1884, 532—538; (7) 
Einsch & Meyer, Ztschr. ges. Orn. 1886, 14; (8) Pryer, Auk 1888, 335; (9J 
Lucas, Auk 1889, 9, 11; (10) Salvad., Orn. Pap. Agg. 1889, I, 63, EH, 224; 
(11) Everett, J. Str. Br. K. A. S. 1889, 152; (12) Wiglesw., Av. Polyn. 1891, 17; 
(13) Vorderman, Xat. T. X. Ind. 1891, L, 450; (14) id., Xotes Leyd. Mus. 1891, 
125; (15) Hart., Oat. B. XVI, 1892, 498; (16) Brns. & Wore., B. Menage Exp. 
1894, 35; (17) Hart., X. Z. 1895, 472; (18) Grant, Ibis 1895, 461; (19) Blank, E. 
Br. Ind. B; EH, 1895, 176; (20) Hart., Ibis 1896, 369; (21) id., Tierr. 1897, I, 67 pt. 
e. Collocalia vanicorensis (1) Gray, B. Trop. Is. 1859, 4; (2) Wiglesw., Av. Polyn. 1891, 18. 
f. Collocalia fusca err. (1) Hickson, Xat. in X. Celebes 1889, 49, 91. 
For further synonymy and references see Salvador! 4, 10 \ Hartert 75; Wiglesw. e 2. 
Figures and descriptions. Quoy & Gaim. h J; Meyer V (skeleton); Salvador! 4; Hartert 
15\ Blanford 19. 
Adult. Upper surface dark sooty brown with very little gloss; bead, wings and tail darker 
and more glossy; feathers in front of the eye whitish with dark brown tips; lower 
surface brownish grey with darker shaft-stripes; under wing- coverts blackish brown. 
Total length about 114 mm; bill at base 3.8; wing 112 — 119; tail 56 (Hartert 75). 
Young. Similar to the adult (Hartert). 
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