Order MICROPODIFORMES. Family MICROPODIDM 
No. 398. 
ZOONAVA FRANCICA. 
GREY-RUMPED SWIFTLET. 
(Plate 346.)* 
Hlrundo feancica Gmelin, Syst. Nat., p. 1017, 1789 ; Mauritius. 
Cypselus teirceregince Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1874, p. 601, 1875 : Cardwell, 
Queensland. 
Cypselus terrceregincB Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1874, p. 601; id., ib., 1875, p. 582. 
Collocalia terroeregincB Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. 11., p. 178, 1878 ; Gould, 
Birds New Guinea, pt. 1 (Vol. IV., pi. 38), 1st Dec., 1875 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. 
Birds, p. 2, 1888. 
Collocalia francica (pt.) Hartert, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XVI., p. 503, 1892 ; Hall, Key 
Birds Austr., p. 54, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 532, 
1901 ; id.. Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 146, 1909; Broadbent, ih., Vol. X., p. 234, 1910; 
North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. IV., p. 438, 1913 ; Campbell and Barnard, 
Emu, Vol. XVII., p. 18, 1917. 
Salangana francica Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 56, 1908. 
Collocalia francica terrceregince Oberholser, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philad., 1906, p. 200 ; 
Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 291, 1912 ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 152, 1913. 
Collocalia francica zoonava Mathews, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, Vol. XXXVI., p. 89, July 7, 1916 ; 
Johnston River, N.Q. 
Distribution. Queensland (CardweU district and islands off the coast). 
Adult male. Head, hind-neck and back dark soot-brown with bronze reflections ; upper 
wing-coverts and secondary-quills glossy bottle-green shghtly paler at the tips of 
some of the feathers and on the inner-webs of the latter ; primary-quiUs darker and 
inchning to black ; rump dusky grey ; upper tail-coverts and tail dark bottle-green 
■with a glossy appearance and slightly paler edges to the tips of the tail-feathers ; 
base of lores whitish, the feathers above the eye rather paler at the tips and forming 
an obscure supercfliary streak, the feathers in front of the eye bla^k ; throat and 
entire under-surface of body mouse-brown ; under wing-coverts glossy bottle- 
green ; under-surface of quills and lower aspect of tail dark brown with a glossy 
appearance and greenish reflections. Eyes dark brown ; feet brownish-black ; 
bill black. Total length 105 mm. ; culmen 4, wing 110, tail 50, tarsus 8. Figured. 
Collected on the Barron River, North Queensland, on the 25th of June, 1911. 
Adult female. Lighter on the under-surface. Wing 115. 
* Left-hand figure. The plate ia lettered Collocalia terrceregincB. 
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