134 HntTTNDlNID-i:. 



blackish, externally washed with dull steel-blue ; tail-feathers blackish 

 glossed with dull steel-green, with a large ovate spot of rufous or 

 rufous-white on the inner web, more elougated in shape on the long 

 outer feather; crown of the head like the back, with a frontal band 

 of dark chestnut ; lores and feathers below the eye black ; ear- 

 coverts blue-black ; entire under surface of body deep chestnut, the 

 throat richer in colour and separated from the breast bj' a broad 

 band of deep purplish blue across the fore neck ; under tail-coverts, 

 under wing-coverts, and axillaries like the breast ; quills dusky 

 below. Total length 6"4 inches, culmen 0-35, wing 4-5, tail 3-6, 

 tarsus 0*4. 



The specimen from Girgeh, killed in March, is of a more intense 

 chestnut than any other I have seen ; the rufous bases to the dorsal 

 feathers are strongly pronounced, and foim a very conspicuous 

 feature in the species. 



Hah. The valley of the Nile. 



a. S ad. sk. Egypt, March 13, 1868. Capt. G. E. Shellev [P.]. 



h. Ad. sk. Egjpt. E. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



c. Ad. ; d. Juv. sk. Minieh, May 12, 1875. J. H. Guruey, Esq., Jun. 



[P.]. 

 e. Ad. sk. Girgeh, Upper Nile {H. Gould Collection. 



Clarke Hawkshmc). 



Subsp. /3. Hirundo gutturalis. 



L'Hirondelle d'Antigue, Sonn. Voy. Kouv. Guin. p. 118, pi. Ixxvi. 

 a776). 



L'Hirondelle d"Antigue a gorge couleur de roiulle, Month. Hist. Nat. 

 Ois. vi. p. 607 (1779). 



Panayau Swallow, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 2, p. 565 (1783). 



Hirundo guttiu-alis, 8cop. Del. I'lor. et Faun. Insttlr. ii. p. 96 (1786) ; 

 Tetnm. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 427 (1820) ; Gray, Ge)i. B. i. p. 57 (1845) ; 

 Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xvi. p. il7 (1847) ; Gray, Cat. Fissir. Brit. 

 Mm. p. 22 (1848) ; Cah. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 46 (1850) ; Cass. Cat. 

 Hirund. Mus. Philad. Acad. p. 1 (1853) ; Gray, P. Z. S. 1860, 

 p. 365; Sidnh. Ibis, 1860, pp. 48, 429, & 1861, p. 30; Jerd. B. 

 Ind. i. p. 157 (1862, pt.) ; Siviiih. Ibis, 1863, p. 255, 1867, p. 411, 

 & 1870, pp. 90, 240 ; Jerd. Ibis, 1871, p. 351 ; Wald. Tr. Z. S. 

 viii. p. 65 (1872) ; Dyboicski, J.f. O. 1872, p. 361 ; Salvad. Ucc. 

 Born. p. 125 (1874) ; Sivinh. Ibis, 1874, p. 151 ; Salvad. Ann. 

 Mus. Civic. Genov. ix. pp. 55, 64 (1876) ; Tacz. Bull. Soc. Zool. 

 France, ii. p. 133 (pt., 1876) ; Blakist. Ibis, 1876, p. 331 ; If?<wie, 

 Ibis, 1876, p. 286, & 1877, p. 17 ; Tweedd. P. Z. S. 1877, pp. 545, 

 694 ; Wald. Tr. Z. S. ix. p. 184 (1877) ; Prjev. in Dawson Rowhi/s 

 Orn. Misc. ii. p. 160 (1877) ; David ^ Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 124 

 (1877, pt.) ; Hume ^ Davis. Sir. F. 1878, p. 41 ; Cripjis, &tr. F. 

 1878, vol. ii. p. 256; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. xiv. p. 490 

 (1879) ; 3Ieyer, Ibis, 1879, p. 128 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, pp. 47, 84 ; 

 Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 344 ; Bingham, Str. F. 1880, p. 48 ; Hume, 

 t.c. p. 245; Tweedd. Report Voy. ^ Challenger,^ ii. p. 48 (1881); 

 Sclater, t.c. p. 116(1881); Kelhani, Ibis, 1881, p. 372 ; Salvad. 

 Orn. Papuasia etc. ii. p. 1 (1881) ; Blakist. 8^ Pryer, B. Japan, 

 p. 139 (1882). 



