AVIS-IBIS

Birds of Indian Subcontinent

Collocalia unicolor

Collocalia unicolor, Jerd.

103. :- Collocalia nidifica, Latham. :- Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 183; Butler, Deccan; Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 380.

THE INDIAN EDIBLE-NEST SWIFTLET.

Length, 4.75 to 5 ; expanse, 11.5 ; wing, 4.5 to 4.75 ; tail, 2.25, slightly forked and the feathers very broad.

Of a glossy cinereous-brown or mouse-brown color, darkest on the head, wings, and tail, and tinged with steel-blue or green, paler beneath.

The Edible-nest Swiftlet is a hot weather visitant to the Vingorla Rocks, where it breeds; it has not been recorded from any other part of our district.

BookTitle: 
Handbook to the Birds of the Bombay Presidency
Reference: 
Barnes, Henry Edwin. Handbook to the birds of the Bombay Presidency, 1885.
Title in Book: 
Collocalia unicolor
Spp Author: 
Jerd.
Book Author: 
Barnes, H. Edwin
Year: 
1885
Page No: 
88
Common name: 
Indian Edible-nest Swiftlet
M_ID: 
7509
M_CN: 
Indian Swiftlet
M_SN: 
Aerodramus unicolor
id: 
11302

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