Cypsellus melba, Lin.
98. :- Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 175 ; Butler, Deccan ; Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 379 ; Guzerat, Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 453 ; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 104.
THE ALPINE SWIFT.
Length, 9 ; expanse, 19.5; wing, 8.5 ; tail (moderately forked) 3.
Bill blackish; irides deep-brown; legs and toes livid-purple.
Above wood-brown, glossed with purple on the back; wings somewhat darker; beneath the chin, throat, and abdomen white ; a wide pectoral band brown ; sides of the rump, tarsal plumes, and under tail-coverts also brown.
The Alpine Swift only occurs as a somewhat rare cold weather visitant to most parts of the region, but is rather more common in the more hilly districts.
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:
Cypsellus melba
Year:
1885
Page No:
85
Common name:
Alpine Swift
M_ID:
7706
M_CN:
Alpine Swift
M_SN:
Tachymarptis melba
Term name:
id:
11296
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