. Birds. Birds. 168 ctpselidjE. Bill tlackish; iris dark brown; feet flesh-colour {Delme Bad- ciijfe). Length about 6 inches; tail 2*5 ; wing 6 ; tarsus "4; the outer exceed the middle rectrices by about -75 inch. Distribution. Common in the North-western Himalaya^ at mode- rate elevations " between the outer ranges and the higher and more interior hills " (Jerdon); probably resident. Jerdon states that he obtained a specimen in the western part of the Deccam and several in Malabar, where it frequents rocky hilla, but no one appears to have observed specimens in the Peninsula si
. Birds. Birds. 168 ctpselidjE. Bill tlackish; iris dark brown; feet flesh-colour {Delme Bad- ciijfe). Length about 6 inches; tail 2*5 ; wing 6 ; tarsus "4; the outer exceed the middle rectrices by about -75 inch. Distribution. Common in the North-western Himalaya^ at mode- rate elevations " between the outer ranges and the higher and more interior hills " (Jerdon); probably resident. Jerdon states that he obtained a specimen in the western part of the Deccam and several in Malabar, where it frequents rocky hilla, but no one appears to have observed specimens in the Peninsula since Jerdon wrote. 1073. Cypselns aflBnis. The Common Indian Swift. Cypselus affinis, Grai/ ^ Bardw. lU. Ind. Zool. i,pl. 35, fig. 2 (1832); Jerdon, Mad. Jour. L. S. xi, p. 235; Tickell, J. A. 8. B. xvii, p. 303; Blyth, Cat. p. 86; Sorsf. 8f M. Cat. i, p. 106; Adams, P. Z. 8. 1859, p. 175; Jerdm, B. I. i, p. 177; Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 339; mime, 8. F. i, p. 166; AUken, 8. F. iii, p. 214; BaU, 8. F. vii, p. 202; Hume, Cat. no. 100; 8cuUy, 8. F. viii, p. 234; Legge, Birds Ceyl. p. 319; Vidal, 8. F. ix, p. 44; Butler, ibid. p. 379; Davison, 8. F. x, p. 347; Gates, B. B. ii, p. 3 (note); id. in Hume's N. Sr F. 2nd ed. iii, p. 21; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 86 ; LUtledale, Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. i, p. 31; Barnes, ibid. p. 43; iv, p. 4; Newnham, op. cit. ii. p. 55; St. John, Ibis, 1889, p. 166. Cypselus nepalensis, Hodgs. J. A. 8. B. v, p. 780 (1836). Cypselus montanus, Jerdon, Mad. Jour. L. 8. xiii, pt. 2, p. 144 (1844). Cypselus abessynicus, 8treubel, Isie, 1848, p. 354; Blanf. J. A. 8. B. xxxviii, pt. 2, p. 169; Hume, Ibis, 1870, p. 405. Micrppus affinis, Hartert, Cat. B. M. xvi, p. 453. Ababil, Babila, H.; Pdkoli, Mahr; Hawa bil-bil, Saharanpur; Batasi, Pahari, Sikhim; Wcehtelaniya, Lcmiya, Fig. 49.—Head of C. affinis, Coloration. Very dark brown, almost black, with a distinct gloss above and below; crown and nape paler, forehead and lower tail- coverts paler still; a black spo
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