Apus

Apus was known from sixteenth century voyagers. It has also being called Apus Indica or Bird of India. Some say it comes from the Greek apous, meaning without feet, as a reference to a Greek myth about the swallow, which was said to be legless in flight.
Apus is one of those small constellations adapted from others in 1603 by Johann Bayer, designed to fill in the blanks in the Southern Hemisphere. In 1603 Johann Bayer included it in Uranometria, his book of constellations, and it's been with us ever since.

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