1. CHELIDON, 87 



Key to the Species. 

 a. Under tail-coverts white. 



a'. With no white spot on the inner weh of the 

 outer tail-feather. 

 a". Long upper tail-coverts black ; remainder 

 white like rump. 

 a'". Chin white like rest of throat. 



«■•. Below pure white : size larger ; wing 

 4-2.5-4-3 inches : tail greatly forked 



(fig. p. 89)_ urbica, p. 87. 



¥. Below sullied white, washed with 

 smoky brown : size smaller ; wing 

 4 inches ; tail much less forked 



(fig. p. 91) cashmiriensis, p. 90. 



h'". Chin with a black spot, as well as the 

 base of the cheeks ; below smoky whi- 

 tish ; tail not much forked (fig. p. 92) dasypus, p. 91. 

 b". Long upper tail-coverts white like the re- 

 mainder and the rump ; no black spot on 

 _ chin ; tail moderately forked (tig. p. 94) lagopus, p. 93. 

 b'. With a white spot on the outer web of the 



outer tail-feather alhigena, p. 94. 



b. Under tail-coverts black nipalensis, p. 95. 



1. Chelidon urbica. 



La petite Hirondelle ou le Martinet a cid blanc, Briss. Orn. ii. r». 490 



(1760). ^ 



Hirimdo urbica, Limi. Syst. Nat. i. p. 344 (17G6) ; Temm. Mmi. 



(TOrn. i. p. 428 (1815); Eoux, Orn. Provenq. pi. 144 (182o) ; 

 Wm-ner, Atlas, Clielidones, pis. 2, 3 (1827); Namn. Vog. Deutschl. 



vi. p. 75, Taf. 145 (1823) ; Menetr. Cat. rais. Cauc. p. 45 (18.32) ; 



Selby, Brit. B. p. 213, pi. 42. fig. 2 (1833) ; Gould, B. Enr. ii. 



pi. 57 (1838) ; Schl. 8,- Susem. Tog. Bur. Taf. vi. I. fig. 1 (1839) ; 



Macgill. Brit. B. iii. p. 573 (1840) ; Kordm.in Demid. Voy. Buss. 



Merid. iii. p. 200 (1840) ; Heivits. Eqqs Brit. B. i. p. 216, pi. 57. 



fig. 3 (1846) ; Thomps. Nat. Hist. B-eland, i. p. 389 (1849) ; Blyth, 



Cat. B. 3Im. As. Soc. p. 198 (1849, pt.) ; Kjc^rb. Danm. Fuqle, 



pi. xiv. fig. 5 (1852) ; Schl. Vog. Nederl. pi. 58 (1854) ; Sun'dev. 



Sv. Fogl. pi. xvii. fig. 6 (1856-72) ; Linderm. Vog. Griechenl. 



p. 117 (1860) ; Schl. Bier. Nederl. Vogels, pi. 6. figs. 5, 5a (1861); 



Keidem. N. T. D. iii. p. 384 (1866) ; Borqe/r. Viiqelf. Norddetdschl. 



p. 100 (1869) ; Gray, B. W. Scotl. p. 209 (1871) ;' Ilarting, Ilandb. 



Brit. B. p. .35 (1872) ; Godm. Ibis, 1872, p. 171 ; End. Onze Vogels, 



ii. pi. 9 (1873) ; Sa.rbi/, B. Shell, p. 146 (1874) ; Ilarting, Summer 



Migr. p. 184 (1875) ; Fallon, Ois. Belg. p. 124 (1875) ; Seebohm, 



Ibis, 1882, pp. 210, 372 ; id. Brit. B. iii. p. 178, pi. 17 (1883) ; 



Dixon, Ibis, 1882, p. 561 ; Homeyer ^ Tancre, Mitth. orn. Ver. 



Wien, May 1883, p. 83. 

 Le Petit Martinet, Baubent. PI. JEnl. vii. pi. 542. 

 L'Hirondelle au croupion blanc ou L'Hirondelle de Fenetre, Ilontb. 



Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 614, pi. xxv. fig. 2 (1779). 

 Martin, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 2, p. 564 (1783). 

 Hirundo domestica. Leach, Syst. Cat. Mamm. etc. Brit. Mus. p. 19 



(1816). ^ 



Chelidon urbica, Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 550 ; Biipj). Neue Wirb. p. 106 



(1838) ; Keys. Sf Bias. Wirb. Eur. p. Lxi (1840) ; Biipp. Syst. 



Uebers. p. 22 (1845) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 60 (1845) ; id. Cat. Fi^sir. 



