Hemiprocnidae

(凤头雨燕科 Fèng-tóu yǔ-yàn kē カンムリアマツバメ科 Kanmuri ama-tsubame ka Họ Yến mào)

(Note: Some CJV Family and subfamily names under Monroe and Sibley are only tentative at this stage)

1. General names

Found only in Asia, the tree swift is known in CJV as a 'crested swift'. To indicate the idea of a 'crest', Chinese uses the term 凤头 fèng-tóu meaning 'phoenix-head', Japanese uses カンムリ kanmuri (冠) meaning 'crown', and Vietnamese uses mào meaning 'crest'.

The Chinese are divided between those who would call the tree swift a 'tree swallow' and those who would call it a 'rain-swallow' (i.e. a swift).

2. Species names

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Hemiprocne coronata
(Previously classed with H. longipennis)
Crested treeswift
Crested tree swift (Cheng = H. longipennis coronata)
Crested swift		 凤头雨燕
fèng-tóu yǔ-yàn
'phoenix-headed rain-swallow'
凤头树燕
fèng-tóu shù-yàn
'phoenix head tree-swallow' (Cheng, M&P)		     インドカンムリアマツバメ
(インド冠雨燕 )
Indo kanmuri ama-tsubame
'Indian crested rain-swallow'
(Wikipedia etc.) 		  Yến mào
'crested swift'		  
Hemiprocne longipennis
binoculars 		Grey-rumped treeswift
Crested tree swift (used before split) 		灰腰雨燕
huī-yāo yǔ-yàn
'grey-rumped rain-swallow'
    カンムリアマツバメ
(冠雨燕 )
kanmuri ama-tsubame
'crested rain-swallow' 		     
Hemiprocne comata
Whiskered treeswift
Lesser tree swift 		小须凤头雨燕
xiǎo-xū fèng-tóu yǔ-yàn
'small whiskered phoenix-headed rain-swallow'
须凤头雨燕
xū fèng-tóu yǔ-yàn
'whiskered phoenix-headed rain-swallow' (Lim - in ZGM used for H. mystacea) 		    コシラヒゲカンムリアマツバメ
(小白髭冠雨燕 )
ko shira-hige kanmuri ama-tsubame
'small white-whiskered crested rain-swallow' 		     

3. Notes

Hemiprocne longipennis has been split into H. longipennis (Grey-rumped treeswift) and H. coronata (Crested treeswift). The H. coronata is found in India, Southwest China, and the Southeast Asian mainland (excluding Malaya). H. longipennis is found in the islands of Southeast Asia and the southern part of the Southeast Asian mainland.

Lim classes the species found in Singapore as H. longipennis (English common name 'Grey-rumped tree swift') but uses the pre-split Chinese name 凤头雨燕 fèng-tóu yǔ-yàn 'phoenix-headed rain-swallow'.

The distribution of the Hemiprocnidae in East Asia can be seen at Tzung-Su Ding's Distribution of APODIFORMES in East Asia.