90 HIRUNDINLD^. 



p. Juv. sk. Kingsbury, Middlesex. J. E. Harting, Esq. [P.l. 



q. S juv. sk. Eomney,'Kent, Sept. E. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P. |. 



r, s. ^ ad. sk. Roiuney, July R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



#. Ad. ; n-iv. PuU. st. Cambridgeshire. Mr. J. Baker [C.J. 



~ Gould Collection. 



Gould Collection. 



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



Gould Collection. 



J. H. Gurney, Esq., jun. 



[P.]. 

 Canon Tristram [C.]. 

 W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 Sir 0. St. John [C.]. 

 India Museum. 

 Purchased. 



2. Chelidon cashmiriensis. 



Chelidon cashmerieiisis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 356; Adams, t. c. 

 p. 494; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 167 (1862); Swinh. Ibis, 1863, p. 90; 

 Grai/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 74, no. 884 (1869) ; Jerd. Ibis, 1871, p. 353; 

 Hume, Nests and Eqgs Ind. B. p. 152 (1873) ; Swinh. Ibis, 1874, 

 p. 152 ; Dresser, B'. Enr. iii. p. 498 (1875) ; Brooks, Sir. F. 1875, 

 p. 231; Prjev. in Boivlei/^s Orn. 3Iisc. ii. p. 163 (1877)*; David ^ 

 Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 539 (1877); Htime, Str. F. 1879, p. 84; 

 Biddniph, Ibis, 1881, p. 47, 1882, p, 269. 



Chelidon urbica (wo?« L.), Ball, Str. F. 1878, vol. ii. p. 202 ; Butler, 

 iSfr. -F. 1880, p. 378t. 



Hirimdo cashmiriensis, Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. iii. p. 179 (1883). 



Adult male. General colour above deep blue-black, the hind neck 

 and mantle varied with ■white bases ; rump white tinged with smoky 

 brown, and with faint dusky shaft-lines ; wing-coverts brownish 

 black, slightly washed with blue-black on the margins ; quiUs dusky 

 blackish, the innermost secondaries narrowly tipped with white ; 

 upper tail-coverts smoky white, with dusky shaft-lines, the long ones 

 dull blue-black ; tail-feathers blackish ; crown of head like the back ; 

 lores blackish ; ear-coverts and cheeks white, the upper edge of the 

 former dusky blackish ; under surface of the body dull whitish ; 

 throat, fore neck, and chest washed with smoky brown, a little 

 darker on the flanks; thighs white; under tail-coverts white, with pale 

 smoky-brown bases and with dusky shaft-lines ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries darker smoky brown, the outer small coverts edged with 

 whitish ; quills below dusky brown, inner edge of qiiills paler; iris 

 brown. Total length 5 inches, culmen 0-3, wing 4, tail 2-2, tarsus 0-5. 



Adult female. Like the male in colour. Total length 4-5 inches, 

 wing 3'85, tail 1'75, tarsus 0-5. 



Obs. Colonel Biddulph (Ibis, 1882, p. 269) in writing of the differ- 

 ences between Chelidon iirhica and the present species, speaks of 



* This reference may belong to C. lagopus. 



t The following references also, I beheve, relate to the present species and 

 not to C. urbica : — 



Chelidon urbica, Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. Ifi6 (pt.) ; Brooks, Str. F. 1875, p. 231 ; 

 Butler, Cat. B. 8. Bomb. Pres. p. 15 (1880). 



