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Birds of Celebes: Cypselidae. 
mainland of Celebes. The Dresden Museum recently got specimens from 
Mindanao. The species is a puzzling one, and varies in a way that is likely 
to cause little satisfaction to trinomialists. 
GENUS MACROPTERYX Sw. 
The subfamily Macropteryginae consists only of the present genus. Its ap- 
pearance is perfectly Cypseline, but it is easily recognisable by its long forked 
tail, the outermost rectrices reaching as far as the ends of the wings; the toes 
are ordinary, the tarsus bare and very short, about as long as the hind toe 
without the claw. The superciliary plumes are long, forming tufts. There are 
two fenestrae in the sternum posteriorly. Its nidification is very peculiar, resem- 
bling most that of the Goatsucker, Batrachostowiis (see below). Tive species have 
been recognised by Hartert, ranging from India to the Solomon Islands. 
f * 108. MACROPTERYX WALLACEI (J. Gd.). 
Cejebesian Crested Swift. 
a. Dendrochelidon wallacei (1) Gld., P. Z. 8. 1859, 100; (II) id., B. Asia I, pL 23 (1859); 
(3) Wall., P. Z. S. 1862, 339; (4) Sclat., P. Z. 8. 1865, 616; J. 1 0. 1867, 140; 
(5) Gray, HL. 1869, I, 65; (6) Bosenb., Malay. Archip. 1878, 271; (7) W. Bias., 
J. f. 0. 1883, 125; ( 8 ) Heine & Bchnw., Homencl. Mus. Hein. 1890, 190. 
Macropteryx wallacei (1) Pinsch, Hen Guinea 1866, 162; (2) Walden, Tr. Z. S. 1872, 
VHI, 45; (3) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 65, 146; (4) W. Bias., J. f. O. 1883, 136; ( 5 ) 
Guillem., P. Z. S. 1885, 548; (6) W. Bias., Ztscbr. ges. Orn. 1885, 246; (7) id., 
ib. 1886, 95; (8) Hickson, Nat. in N. Celebes 1889, 91; (9) Tristr., Cat. Coll. B. 
1889, 112; (10) Hartert, Cat. B. XVI, 1892, 515; (11) Biittik., Zool. Erg. Weber’s 
Beise Ost.-Ind. 1893, IH, 275; (12) M. & Wg. , Abb. Mus. Dresden 1895, SXr. 8, 
p. 8; (13) iid., ib. 1896, Xr. 1, pp. 5, 9; (14) bd., ib. 1896, Xr. 2, p. 13; (15) Hart., 
Xov. Zool. 1896, 175. 
h. Dendrochelidon klecho var. wallacei (1) Briigg., Abb. Ver. Bremen 1876, V, 55. 
“Peapatta”, Gorontalo, Bos. a 6. “Burong padang” (Knife-bird), Malay, Manado, Meyer 3. 
“Pavas”, Manado, Gnill. 5. “Pavas”, Talissi, Hicks. 8. “Pxsok besar”, Banka, Xat. Coll. 
“Rewata”, Tjamba, S. Cel., Platen 6. “Biding”, Tonkean, E. Cel., Xat. Coll. 
“Papingis”, Peling; “Tepede babasar”, Banggai, Xat. Coll. 
Figure and descriptions. Gould aJZ, a 1\ Gnill. 5 (young); W. Bias. 6\ Hart. 10\ Biitt. 11. 
Adult male. Head above, wing-coverts, exposed webs of quills, and tail, shining 
blackish blue, varied on crown with bronze-green, and passing into bronze-green with 
blackish blue margins on most of the feathers on hind neck, mantle, and sca- 
pulars, which again shades off into the dark grey of the back, rump, and upper 
tail-coverts; the longest tertiary coverts lighter grey; ear-coverts dull dark 
chestnut, face black glossed with green; a very narrow superciliary stripe of grey; 
under parts from chin downwards dark grey, becoming whitish tinged with buff and 
fulvous on abdomen and shaded with greenish on sides of breast; under wing- 
coverts dark brown, washed with bluish at metacarpal edge (Minahassa [(;f] — 
C 3499). Iris brown; feet grey; claws blackish; bill black (Meyer 3). . 
Adult female. Like male but the ear-coverts greenish steel-blue, not chestnut (Hartert 10). 
