88 HlEUNDINIDJi. 



Brit. Mus. p. 31 (1848) ; Bp. Cmsp. i. p. 343 (1850) ; Cab. Mus. 

 Hein. Th. i. p. 51 (1850); Bolle,J. f. O. 1854, p. 460; Heugl. 

 Syst. Uebeis. p. 17 (1856) ; Jaub. et Barth.-Lapomm. Rich. Orn. 

 p. 340 (1859) ; Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 302 ; Tristr. t. c. p. 434 ; Heur/l. 

 J.f. 0. 1861, p. 419; Gould, B. Gt. Br. vol. ii. pi. 6 (1862-73) ; 

 Jerd. B. Lid. i. p. 166 (1862) ; Netcton in Baring-Gould^ s Icdand, 

 p. 408 (1863); Brchm, Reis. Habcsch. p. 272 (1863); Filipin, 

 J'iai/f/. Pers. p. 346 (1865); Bettoni, Ucc. nidif. Lomb. tav. 67 

 (lS(>j-70); More, Ibis, 1865, p. 139; Baird, Ris, 1867, p. 281; 

 Deql. ct Gerbe, Orn. Eur. i. p. 592 (1867) ; Loche, B.rpl. Set. Alger., 

 Oi's. ii. p. 71 (1867) ; Tristr. Ibis, 1867, p. 364 ; Brake, t. c p. 425 ; 

 Snmulers, Ibis, 1869, p. 174; Heuf/l. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 168 

 (ISC.O); Doderl. Avif. Sicil. p. 145 (1869) ; Droste, Vogelw. Bork. 

 p. 67 (1869) ; Wgatt, Ibis, 1870, p. 12 ; Blwes Sf Buckley, t. c. 

 p. 200 ; Bkmf. Geol. ^ Zool. Abyss, p. 349 (1870) ; Sharpe, P. Z. 8. 

 1870, p. 202 ; Fritsch, Voq. Eur. tab. 23. fig. 5 (c. 1870) ; Salvad. 

 Faun. Ital, Ucc. p. 51 (1871); Shelley, B. Egypt, p. 125 (1872) ; 

 Alst. 8( Harvie Brotcn, Ibis, 1873, p. 59 ; Brooke, t. c. p. 237 ; 

 Hume, Str. F. ] 873, p. 323 ; Brooks, Str. F. 1875, p. 323 ; Dresser, 

 B. Eur. iii. p. 495, pi. 162 (1875) ; Irbi/, B. Gibr. p. 102 (1875) ; 

 Wharto7i, Ibis, 1876, p. 19 ; Walden, 't. c. p. 356 ; Blanf. East. 

 Persia, ii. p. 216 (1876) ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 84; Bogdanof, 

 B. Caucas. p. 116 (1879) ; Newt. ed. Yarr. Brit. B. ii. p. 349 

 (1880) ; Butler, Cat. B. S. Bombay Pres. p. 15 (1880) ; Collett, 

 Norges Fugle, p. 286 (1881); Giglioli, Elench. Ucc. Ital. p. 63 

 (1881); Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, -p. 47; Scully, t. c. p. 428 ; SMlei/, 

 Ibis, 1882, p. 259; Biddulph, t. c. p. 269; Severtz. Ibis, 1883, 

 p. 70; B. O. U. List Brit. B. p. 44 (1883); Tristr. Faun. ^ Flor. 

 Palest, p. 62 (1884) ; Radde, Orn. Cauc. p. 36 (1884). 



Chelidon fenestrarum, C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 140 (1831). 



Chelidon rupestris, C. L. B7ehm, t. c. p. 140 (1831). 



Hirundo Candida, Naum. Vog. Deutschl. vi. p. 77 (1833). 



Hirundo Taria, Naum. Vog. Deutschl. vi. p. 77 (1833). 



Hii-undo pallida, Naum. Vog. Deutschl. vi. p. 77 (1833). 



Chelidon tectorum, C. L. Brehm, Naum. 1855, p. 271. 



Adult male, in hreecling-phimage. General colour above deep 

 purplish blue, with slight indications of the white bases of the fea- 

 thers showing on the hind neck and mantle ; wing-coverts blackish 

 brown, the lesser series slightly glossed with purple, the median and 

 greater coverts with a very faint steely gloss ; bastard-wing, primary- 

 coverts, and quills also blackish brown, slightly glossed with steely 

 green ; lower back and rump pure white, with narrow shafts-lines 

 of dusky ; upper tail-coverts dull steel-blue ; tail-feathers blackish 

 brown, with a slight steel-blue gloss on the centre feathers ; crown 

 of head like the back ; lores and feathers round the ej^e black, as 

 well as the ear-coverts ; cheeks and lower ear-coverts as well as the 

 entire surface of the body pure white ; sides of body and flanks very 

 pale smoky brown ; thighs white ; under tail-coverts white with a 

 slight wash of dingy brown, the shaft-stripes dusky and tolerably 

 distinct ; under wing-coverts and axiUaries smoky brown, the outer 

 wing-coverts mottled with dusky bases to the feathers ; quills dusky 

 brown below, a little paler on the inner edge : " bill black ; feet 

 black ; iris dark brown." Total length 5'5 inches, culmen 0'35, 

 wing 4"2.5, tail 2*5, tarsus 0'45. 



