]. CHELIBON. 



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Tail of Chelidon urhica. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour. Total length 

 5 inches, culmen 0"35, wing 4-3, tail 2-5, tarsus 0-45. 



Young. Distinguished from the adults at a glance by the yellow 

 gape and white fringes at the ends of the secondaries. The colour 

 of the upper surface is much duller, being often of a dingy brown 

 with a gloss of purplish or greenish steel-blue ; the throat is pale 

 smoky brown, weU defined on the fore neck, and contrasting with 

 the rest of the under surface, which is pure white. Before leaving 

 England, the plumage becomes worn and dingy brown, but the new 

 feathers begin to show in examples killed late in October. 



Young birds in first autumn plumage often have the fore neck 

 buff-coloured. 



Hab. All over Europe in summer, breeding even in the far north. 

 Specimens have been procured in South-eastern Africa, and its 

 winter home is therefore probably Central Africa. It straggles 

 also to Turkestan and North-western India ; but as sufiicient care 

 has not been taken by collectors to distinguish between this species 

 and C. cashmiriensis, its Indian range cannot well be determined. 



a. (5 ad. sk. Axmouth, Devon, April 



1883 {H. Swaysland). 



h. (S ad. st. Axmouth, Devon, AprU 



1883 {H. Swaysland). 



c. Juv. sk. Devonshire. 



d. Var. alb. st. Devonshire. 



e. "Var. alb. st. Devonshire. 



f. 2 ad. sk. Alton, Hants (J. G.). 



g. h. 2 ad. sk. Avington, Hants, May 14. 

 i. Var. alb. st. Pagham, Sussex, Sept. 



k, I. Juv. sk. Brighton, Oct. 1883 (H. 



Sicaysland). 

 7)1. Juv. sk. Brighton, end of October 



{I£. Swaysland). 

 n. 2 ad.; o. c? juv. Cookham, Berks, Aug. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



Col. Montagu [P.]. 

 Col. Montagu [P.J. 

 J. Prideaux, Esq. [P.]. 

 Gould Collection. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 

 J. E. Harting, Esq. IC.]. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



