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HIBUNDINIDiE. 



The sexes arc alike in colouring, and a pair from Palestine 

 measure as follows : — 



Total length. Wing. Tail. Tarsus, 

 in. in. in. in. 



a. S ad. Mt. Quarantaaia {H. B. T.) . .4-8 4-55 2-0 0-.35 



b. 2 ad. Engedi {H. B. T.) 4-9 4-55 2-15 0-4 



Specimens from Baluchistan appear to be identical, and measure 

 4*5 to 4-(i inches in the wing. 



Hah. From S. Arabia to Egypt and Nubia, Palestine, to Baluchi- 

 stan and Sind. 



a. Ad. sk. Fifth Cataract of the Nile. 



b, c. Ad. sk. Egypt. 



d. Ad. sk. Egypt. 



e. Ad. St. Egypt. 



f. 5 ad. sk. Engedi, Palestine. 



g. S ad. sk. Mt. Quarantania. 

 h. S ad. sk. Aden, March 10. 



i. Ad. sk. Near Gwadar, Baluchistan, 



Jan. 23, 1872. 

 k. (S ad. sk. Jalk, Baluchistan, March 



17, 1872. 



F. Galton, Esq. [P.]. 

 Sir S. Baker [P.]. 

 Gould Collection. 

 W. B. Turnbull, Esq. [P.]. 

 Canon Tristram [C.J. 

 Canon Tristram [C.]. 

 Major Yerbury [P.]. 

 W."T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



3. TACHYCINETA *. 



Tachycineta, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 48 (1850) . . . , 

 Iiidoprocne, Coues, B. Color. Vail. p. 412 (1878) . . . 



Type._ 

 T. thalassinus. 

 T. bicolor. 



Tail of Tachycineta thalassinus, showing absence of indentation on outer feather. 

 Range. The whole of the New World. 



Key to the Sjiecies. 

 a. With a white rump. 



a'. With the greater winfj-coverts and secondary 



quiUs broadly edged with white albiventris, p. 113. 



* The following species has been by many authors referred to the present 

 genus, but I am unable to identify it : — 



Tachycineta maculatus. 

 Hirondelle a ventre tachete de Cayenne, Bauh. PI. Enl. 546. fig. 2. 

 Hirundo maculata, Bodd. Tabl. PL Enl. p. 32 (1783) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. 

 p. 58 ; id. Hand-l. B. i. p. 71, no. 84G. 



