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The c? has the lateral rectrices wliite on both webs for over 3 cm., but some 

 Philippine examples (No. a. 258 North Luzon, John AVhitehead coll.) have nearly 

 as much white, and only part of the tip of the outer web brown. The ? has the 

 tip of the outer web of the lateral rectrices grej--brown, only buffy-white near the 

 shaft, the inner white for 2J cm. 



CYPSELIDAE. 

 ■S3. Collocalia esculenta neglecta Gray. 



ColhmUa neglfclii Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Uisl. xvii. p. 121 (Timor). 

 Collocalia neglecta Finsoh, Notes Leyden Mus. xxii. p. 279 (Kisser and Wetter). 



1 think now that C. neglerta is best treated as the Timorese representative of 

 C. escuU'nta. It differs from it at a glance by the colour of the upperside, which 

 is not steel-blue, but brown-black with a greenish-blue gloss, in fresh plumage with 

 conspicuous, in worn plumage indistinct or invisible whitish fringes to the feathers. 

 Mr. Kiihn sent : 



2 S ad., 2 ? ad., 2 pull., Kisser, April— May 19ul. The young birds are 

 paler, more greyish black, the whitish edges more conspicuous. 



8 <? ? , Wetter, October 19U2. (Nos. 5o81— 5588.) 



7c??, Koma, August 10O2. (Nos. 5350—5365.) 



Two nests from Wetter are entirely composed of a kind of olive greyish lichen 

 while one from Roma consists of black hair-like palm fibre with a few pieces of 

 yellowish-green lichen. They are thus utterly inedible. 



HIRUNDINIDAE. 

 84. Hirundo rustica gutturalis Scop. 



Hinmdo gutturalis Scopoli, Del. Fhr. et. Faun. Insiihi-. ii. p. 'J6 (1786 : New Guinea). 



One adult bird (No. 5590) shows the red widely interrupting the dark pectoral 

 band, others (more or less immature) show an almost complete baud. 

 8c??, Wetter, October 1902. (Nos. 5590, 5860—5865.) 



85. Hirundo javanica Sparrm. 



nirwido javaniia Sparrman, Mus. Curls, ii. Taf. lOl) (178'J : Java) ; Finsch, Nutcs Lfi/dm .Vus. 

 xxii. p. 274 (Kisser). 



10 c??. Kisser, May, June lUnl, September 1902. (Nos. 4o20— 4024, 5815— 

 5818, 5820.) 



1 c?. Wetter, 6. x. 1902. (No. 5591.) 



1 c?, Roma, 8. viii. 1902. (No. 5401.) 



2 (? ad., 1 S immat., Letti, November, December 1902. (Nos. 5977, 5978, 

 6436.) 



1 (?, 2 ? ?, Moa, November, December 19o2. (Nos. 6159, 6160, 6333.) 



86. Hirundo daurica striolata Temm. &, Schl. 



Ilirundii sirliihil,! Temm. & Schlegel, Faumi Japouica, Ares, p. 33 (1850 ; Java). 



3 c?c?, 1 ?, Wetter, October 1902. (Nos. 5589, 5664, 5665, 5722.) "Iris 

 blackish brown, bill and feet blackish." 



