Order MICBOPODIFORMES. 
No. 399. 
Family MICROPODIDM, 
ZOONAVA FUCIPHAGA. 
UNIFOEM SWIFTLET. 
(Plate 346.)* 
HmxjNDO FUCiPHAGA Thunberg, Kongl. Vetensk. Akad. Handl. (Stockh.), Vol. XXXIII. » 
p. 153, pi. IV., 1812 : “ Java in montium.” 
Collocalia francica yorki Mathews, Bull. Brit. Om. Club, Vol. XXXVI., p. 77, April 27, 
1916 : Cape York, North Australia. 
CoUocalm fuciphaga yorki Mathews, ib., p. 92 ; id.. Emu, Vol. XVI., p. 182, 1917. 
Distribution. Cape York, North Australia. 
Adult male. General colour above sooty-black with a steel metallic sheen on the top of the 
head and a bronze-green gloss on the back, wings, and tail ; inner-webs of flight-quills 
smoke-brown ; the feathers on the rump more or less white at the base ; lores and 
feathers in front of the eye white at the base ; under-surface smoke-brown inclining 
to grey on the throat and more or less grey at the base of the under tail-coverfcs ; 
under wing-coverts sooty-black; under-surface of wings and lower aspect of tail 
glossy dark brown. Eyes, feet and bill black. Total length 120 mm. ; culmen 4, 
wing 120, tail 55, tarsus 9. Figured. Collected at Cape York on the 10th of 
September, 1913. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male. 
Nesting. Details (as regards Australia) unknown. 
With little life-history this species has a large scientific literature which is 
too immense to be adduced here, where only a short resume can be given. 
When Hartert monographed the genus in the Sixteenth Volume of the 
Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum in 1892, he wrote, p. 497 : “So 
many species of Collocalia have been distinguished and named by various 
ornithologists and subsequently reunited by others, that it would be most 
difiicult, and in some cases almost impossible, to determine the sj)ecies from 
the Hterature ; but the materials in the British Museum, supplemented by 
the specimens lent to me by several friends, though still quite imperfect from 
certain locafities, have enabled me, I believe, to throw a little light upon this 
group. Ornithologists are no doubt aware of the fact that Collocalice are 
* Right-hand figure. The plate is lettered Golloaalitx terrceregirm 
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