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HIETJNDINID^. 



surface of body white, witli a patch of sooty brown on the sides of 

 the upper breast. Total length 5-5 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 3-95, 

 taU 2-2, tarsus 0-45. {Mus. Salvin and Godman.) 

 Sab. Bahama Islands. 



a. Ad. sk. Nassau, Bahamas (C. i>. Cori/). Sclater Collection. 



4. PHEDINA. 



Type. 

 Phedina, Bp. Rioist. Contemp., Torino, 1857, p. 4 P. borbonica. 



Head of Phedina borbonica, to show the nostrils. 

 Range, llauritius ; Eeunion ; Madagascar. 



1. Phedina borbonica. 



Hirondelle de I'isle de Bourbon, Dmibent. PI. Enl. vii. pi. 644. fig. 2. 

 Wheat S^Yallow, Lath. Gen. Spi. ii. pt. 2, p. 581 (1783, e.v Uauient.). 

 Hirundo borbonica, Gin. Sy/it. Nat. i. p. 1017 (1788, ex Daubent.) ; 



Lath. Lid. Orn. ii. p. 580 (1790) ; Graij, Gen. B. i. p. 58 (1845) ; 



Schl. ^- Poll. Faune Madag., Ois. p. 68 (1868) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. 



i. p. 71, no. 834 (1869). ■ 

 Cotyle borbonica, Bp. Consp. i. p. 342 (1850). 

 Phedina borbonica, Bp. Rivist^ Contemp., Torino, 1857, p. 4; £. Neioton, 



Lbis, 1861, p. 271 ; Maill. Notes Reunion, p. 162 (1862) ; L. Xeiut. 



This, 1862, p. 270, 1863, p. 340 ; Coquerel, Alb. Reun. 1865, pp. 19, 



20, fig. 2; Sharpe, P.Z.S. 1870, p. 295; id. Cat. Afr. B. p. 45 



(1871); A. Sf E. Newt. Ibis, 1876, p. 284; Hartl. Vog. Madag. 



p. 63 (1877). 



Adidt. Above dark greyish brown, the centres of the feathers 

 marked down the shaft with a uarrow streak of black, very distinct 

 on the rump ; wing-coverts dark blackish brown ; quills black above, 

 greyish underneath ; tail blackish brown above, dark brown beneath, 

 paler on the inner web ; lores black ; cheeks, sides of the neck and 

 of the breast greyish brown, with darker shaft-stripes ; rest of the 

 under surface of the body white, longitudinally striped with dark 

 brown, the upper part of the breast and flanks somewhat greyish ; 

 bill black ; feet brown. Total length 5-4 inches, wing 4-65, 

 tail 2. 



Hah. Islands of Mauritius and Eeunion. 



a. (S ad. sk. Maiuitius, June 18 {B. Sharpe Collection. 



Neicton). 



b. Ad. sk. Mam-itius. Sharpe Collection. 



c. d. S 2 ^d. sk. Reunion. Pui'chased. 



