Christmas Island Swiftlet

Here the details of the Christmas Island Swiftlet named bird below:

SCI Name:  Collocalia natalis
Protonym:  Collocalia natalis Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1888) (1888), Pt4 no.35 p.520
Taxonomy:  Caprimulgiformes / Apodidae / Collocalia
Taxonomy Code:  chiswi1
Type Locality:  Christmas Island, Indian Ocean.
Author:  Lister
Publish Year:  1889
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

COLLOCALIA
(Apodidae; † Glossy Swiftlet C. esculenta) Gr. κολλα kolla  glue; καλια kalia  nest; the nests of cave swiftlets are made from a cement formed in the salivary glands of breeding birds, and form the base of the Chinese delicacy birds-nest soup.  However, the hard, fibrous nests of the Glossy Swiftlet are considered useless for culinary purposes; "COLLOCALIA, n.  Hirundo, L.  C. esculenta, (L.) n. Briss., II. t. 46. f. 2. A." (G. Gray 1840); "Collocalia G. R. Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 8.  Type, by original designation, Hirundo esculenta Linné." (Peters, 1940, IV, p. 220). 
Var. Collicalia, Colocalia.
Synon. Salangana.

natalis
L. natalis  birthday  < natus  born, son  < nasci  to be born.
● Christmas I., Indian Ocean (so-named by Capt. William Mynors, of the East India Co., when he sailed past on Christmas Day 1643) (subsp. Accipiter fasciatus, subsp. Chalcophaps indica, subsp. Collocalia esculenta, Ninox, Zosterops).