Cypsiurus Balasiensis Bird

English Name:  Asian Palm-Swift
Latin Name:  Cypsiurus balasiensis
Protonym:  Cypselus Balasiensis Anim.Kingd.[Griffith] 7 p.60
Taxonomy:  Caprimulgiformes / Apodidae / Cypsiurus
Taxonomy Code:  aspswi1
Type Locality:  India, restricted to Calcutta by Stuart Baker, antea, p. 336.
Author:  Gray, JE
Publish Year:  1829
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CYPSIURUS
(Apodidae; Ϯ African Palm Swift C. parvus) Gr. κυψελος kupselos  swallow; ουρα oura  tail. "AMBERGRIS SWALLOW ...Grey-brown Swallow, beneath paler, with the tail greatly forked" (Stephens 1817); "105^e Genre: CYPSIURUS, Less.  Hab. l'Afrique. —  454. Cypsiurus ambrosiacus. Hirundo ambrosiacas, Brisson, t. 2 pl. 45 f. 4; L.; Gm.; cypselus ambrosiacus, Temm. pl. 460 f. 2; H. ambrosiaca, Vieill., ency. p. 520; Lesson, voy. de Bélang., p. 244; Séba, 1, 102; cypselus parvus, Lichst., cat. n^o 603; hab.: l'Egypte, la Nubie, le Sénégal, le Cap de Bonne-Espérance." (Lesson 1843); "Cypsiurus Lesson, Écho du Monde Savant, Ann. 10, 2me sem., 1843, p. 134. Type, by monotypy, Cypselus ambrosiacus Temminck = Cypselus parvus Lichtenstein." (Peters, 1940, IV, p. 255).
Var. Cypselurus.
Synon. Tachynautes.

balasiensis
Bengali name Bāthāsi for the Asian Palm Swift (cf. Nepali name Bâtāsi for the Little Swift Apus affinis) (cf. Horsfield & Moore 1854: "CYPSELUS BATASSIENSIS,* J. E. Gray [1829] ... Hirundo (Apus) batassia Hamilton MS ... Batassian Swift  Lath. ... BATASSIA, Beng. ...*Balassiensis, Auct. corrigend.") (Cypsiurus).

SUBSPECIES

Asian Palm-Swift (balasiensis)
Latin Name: Cypsiurus balasiensis balasiensis
balasiensis
Bengali name Bāthāsi for the Asian Palm Swift (cf. Nepali name Bâtāsi for the Little Swift Apus affinis) (cf. Horsfield & Moore 1854: "CYPSELUS BATASSIENSIS,* J. E. Gray [1829] ... Hirundo (Apus) batassia Hamilton MS ... Batassian Swift  Lath. ... BATASSIA, Beng. ...*Balassiensis, Auct. corrigend.") (Cypsiurus).

Asian Palm-Swift (infumatus)
Latin Name: Cypsiurus balasiensis infumatus
infumata / infumatus
L. infumatus smoked < infumare to dry in smoke.

Asian Palm-Swift (bartelsorum)
Latin Name: Cypsiurus balasiensis bartelsorum
bartelsorum
Max Eduard Gottlieb Bartels (1871-1936) and his sons Dr Max Bartels, Jr. (1902-1943), Ernst Bartels (b. 1904), and Hans Bartels (1906-1997) Dutch plantation managers, naturalists and collectors in Java (subsp. Turnix sylvaticus).

Asian Palm-Swift (pallidior)
Latin Name: Cypsiurus balasiensis pallidior
pallidior / pallidiora
L. pallidior, pallidioris  paler  < comp. pallidus  pale  < pallere  to be pale.