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Birds from the Andaman Islands. 
Since writing on Collocalia affinis (Ibis, 1873, p. 302) I have 
had an opportunity of comparing it with Horsfield’s type spe¬ 
cimen of C. linchi, and I find that it in no way differs. Hi- 
rundo fuciphaga was described by Thunberg from Javan ex¬ 
amples ,* and I have no doubt whatever that HorsfiehBs C. 
linchi = H. fuciphaga, Thunb. The diagnosis of H. fuciphaga, 
ample in its details, applies in every respect to C. linchi ; while 
the last phrase, “ differt ab H. esculenta cauda tota atra im- 
maculata,” of itself marks the species; for with the exception 
of the white spots on the lateral rectrices, Moluccan C. escu¬ 
lenta (Linn.) is barely to be distinguished from J avan C. linchi. 
The synonymy of C. fuciphaga will therefore be as follows :— 
Collocalia (Hirundo) fuciphaga, Thunberg, Act. Holm, 
xxxiii. p. 151, pi. iv. u Java” (1772). 
Hirundo fuciphaga, Thunb.: Horsf. Tr. L. S. xiii. p. 143, 
sp. 2, " Java" (1820). 
Linchi Swallow, Latham, Gen. Hist. vii. p. 292 (1823), ex 
Horsf. 1. c. 
Collocalia fuciphaga (Thunb.), G. R. Gray & Mitch. Gen. 
Birds, i. p. 55, sp.3 (1844); List Birds Brit. Mus. (Fissirostres) 
p. 21, sp. 2, " Java" (1848). 
Collocalia esculenta (Linn.), Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1845, p. 212, 
sp. 2, “ Malay coasts, Nicobar islands.” 
Collocalia fuciphaga (Thunb.), Blyth, tom. cit. p. 548, 
note, “Nicobars, Java;” op. cit. 1846, pp. 22, 369, "Ni- 
cobars;” Cat. Calc. Mus. p. 86. no. 429, “ Nicobars, Java ” 
(1849). 
Hemiprocne fucivora, Streubel, Ibis, 1848, p. 369, " Ost- 
indien,” ex Thunberg*. 
Collocalia linchi, Horsf. & Moore, Cat. E. I. C. Mus. i. 
p. 100. no. 123, “ Java” (1854); Bp. C. R. xli. p. 977. no. 3 
(1855); id. R. Z. 1855, p. 581. no. 3. 
Collocalia nidifica (Lath.), Bernst. Nov. Act. Ac. C. L. C. 
Nat. Cur. xxvi. p. 15, pi. 2, f. 5, 6, 7, 8, “ Java” (1857). 
Collocalia fuciphaga (Thunb.), Bernst, J. f. O. 1859, p. 119. 
no. 3, “ Java.” 
* Streubel altered the name of fuciphaga, Thunb., to fucivora, on account 
of its hybrid construction. 
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