5. HIRTTNDO. 129 



Sf Reichen. J. /. O. 1879, p. 344; Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, p. 16; 



Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 84; Bogd. B. Cauc. p. 115 (1879); Butler, 

 Cat. B. Siml ^c. p. 12 (1879) ; id. Cat. B. Bomb. Pres. p. 13 (1880) ; 

 Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1880, p. 48 ; Vidal, Str. F. 1880, p. 43 ; 



Neioton, cd. Yarr. Brit. B. ii. p. 340 (1880) ; Collett, Norges Fugle, 



p. 286 (1881) ; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 565 ; Giglioli, Blench. 

 Ucc. Ital. p. 64 (1881) ; Biddulph, Urn, 1881, p. 47 ; Scully, t. c. 



p. 427; Feilden, in Markham's Polar Reconn. p. 338(1881); Rcid, 



Str. F. 1881, p. 16; Davidson, Str. F. 1882, p. 292; Butler, 



Feilden, ^- Raid, Zool. 1882, p . 251 ; B.O.U. Lid Br. B. p. 42 ( 1883 ) ; 



Oates, B. Br. Burm. i. p. 302 (1883, pt.) ; Davison, Str. F. 1883, 



p. 346; Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. ii. p. 171, pi. 17 (18S3) ; Sharpe, 



ed. LayardJs B. S. Afr. p. 362 (1884) ; Tristr.Faun.^- Flor. Palest. 



p. 61 (1884) ; Radde, Orn. Cauc. p. 36 (1884) ; Salvad. Ann. Mas. 



Civic. Genov. (2) i. p. 120 (1884) ; Hurray, Vertebr. Faun. Sind, 



5. 102 (1884). 

 Chimney Swallow, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 2, p. 561 (1783). 

 Hirundo domestica, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. i. p. 528 (pt., 1811) ; 



Swinh. Ibis, 1804, pp. 414, 420 ; Wyatt, Ibis, 1870, p. 10 ; Severtz. 



Turkest. Jevotn. p. 67 (1873). 

 Chelidon prome, Forst. Syn. Cat. Brit. B. p. 55 (1817). 

 Ceci'opis rustica, Boie, Isis, 1826, p.971, et 1844, p. 174 ; Less.Compl. 



Buff._ viii. p. 498 (1837). 

 Cecropis pagorum, C. L. Brehm, Vog, Deutschl. p. 138 (1831) ; id. 



Naum. 1855, p. 271. 

 Cecropis stabulorum, Brehm, Naum. 1855, p. 271. 

 Hirundo cahirica (nan Licht.), Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 26 (1857); 



Cass. Proc. Acad. N. Sci. Philad. 1859, p. 32 ; Bias. Naum. 1859, 



p. 254; Hartl. J. f. O. 1861, p. 103; Tristr. Ibis, 1862, p. 278; 



Gurney, Ibis, 1866, p. 423 ; Tristr. Ibis, 1867, p. 361 ; Loche, 



Expl. Sci. Alger., Ois. ii. p. 67 (1867) ; Saunders, Ibis, 1869, p. 396; 



Salvad. Ibis, 1870, p. 153 ; Saunders, t. c. p. 299; Ehves ^ Buckley, 



t. c. p. 200. 

 Hirundo boissoneauti (mc Temm.), Linderm. Vog. Griechenl. p. 119 



(1860); Kriqier, J.f. O. 1860, p. 281. 

 Hirundo saviguii {luc And.), Tristr. Ibis, 1864, p. 230. 

 Hirundo rustica orientalis (nee Schl.), Wright, His, 1864, p. 57. 

 Hirundo riocouri (nee Aud.), Gurnexi,jun., Ibis, 1866, p. 423. 

 Chelidon rustica, Stejn. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. vi. p. 31 (1882). 



Adult male in hreeding-plumage. General colour above glossy 

 purplish blue, the mautle slightly varied with white bases to the 

 feathers ; ou the sides of the lower back a tuft of silkj' white plumes, 

 some of which are edged with black ; lesser and median wing-coverts 

 like the back ; greater coverts, bastard-wing, primary-coverts, aud 

 quills black, externally glossed with purplish blue, with somewhat 

 of a steel-green appearance on some of the feathers ; tail-feathers 

 blackish, washed with steel-green, all but the centre feathers with 

 a large rounded spot of creamy white on the inner web, becoming 

 longer and more oblique on the outer feathers; head like the back, the 

 nape varied with white bases to the feathers ; forehead deep rufous; 

 lores deep black ; ear-coverts and feathers below the eye purplish 

 blue ; cheeks and thi-oat deep rufous, separated from the breast by 

 a broad collar of glossy purplish blue, slightly interspersed with a 

 few rufous bars on the centre of the collar ; fore neck and remainder 

 of under surface pale rufous-buff, a Little deeper on the vent and 



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