5. HIEUNDO. 135 



Hirundo panavana, 0?«. Sysf. Nat. i. p. 1018 (1788) ; Moore, P. Z. S. 



1854, p. 2Gi ; Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mm. i. p. 91 



(1854). _ 

 Hirundo jewan, St/kes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 83 ; Jerd. Madr. Journ. xi. 



p. -231 (1840), 

 Hirundo rustica (non L.), Meyen, Nova Acta Acad. C<es. Leop.-Car. 



Nat. Cur. Stippl. Taf. 10. fig. 1 (1834) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. 



Soc. p. 197 (1849, pt.) ; Temm. Sf Schl. Faun. Japon., Aves, p. 31 



(1850) ; Su-inh. Ibis, 1861, pp. 254, 328, & 1863, p. 89 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 



1863, p. 217 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 68, no. 786 (1869, pt.) ; Holdsio. 



P. Z. S. 1872, p. 418 ; SJiarpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. 2nd ser. Zool. i. 



p. 328 (1876) ; Anderson, Zool. Yun-7uin Exped., Birds, p. 649 



(1878) ; Blakist. 6r Pryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 320 ; Oates, B. Brit. Burm. 



i. p. 302 (1883). 

 Cecropis payana, Less. Compl. Bvff. viii. p. 498 (1837). 

 Cecropis jewan. Less. t. c. p. 499 (1837) ; Boie, Isis, 1844, p. 174. 

 Cecropis rusticoides, Boie, Isis, 1844, p. 174 {ex Kuhl, MS.). 

 Cecropis panayana, Boie, t. c. 

 Hirundo javanica {non Sparr?>i.), Bp. Consp. i. p. 338 (1850) ; Bemst. 



J.f. 0. 1859, p. 267; Blakist. Ihis, 1862, pp. 315, 316; Whitely, 



Ibis, 1867, p. 196 ; Hayes Lloyd, Ibis, 1873, p. 405. 

 Hii-undo fretensis, Goidd, Hanclb. B. Avstr. i. p. 110 (1865) ; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 70, no. 815 (1869) ; Digyles, Orn. Aiistr. text to 



pi. 22 (c. 1870). 

 Hirundo frenata (lapsu cal.), Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 336 ; Gray, Hand-l. 



B. i. p. 70, no. 816 (1869). 

 Hirundo andamanensis, Tytler ^- Beav. Ibis, 1867, p. 316; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 68, no. 791 (1869) ; Ball, Str. F. 1873, p. 65; 



Hume, Str. F. 1874, p. 155, & 1876, p. 286. 

 Hirundo rustica, var. guttm-alis, Seebohn, Hist. Brit. B. ii. p. 171 



(1883). 



Adult male. General colour above glossj- purplish blue, streaked 

 ■with the white bases to the feathers of the mantle ; ■wing-coverts 

 like the back : bastard-^wing, primary-coverts, and quUls blackish, 

 ■washed externally -with glossy blue ; tail-feathers blackish ■washed 

 ■with blue, all but the centre ones ■with a large oval spot of ■white on 

 the inner ■web, becoming an oblique patch on the outermost feather; 

 forehead dark chestnut ; lores blackish ; ear-coverts purplish blue ; 

 cheeks and entire throat chestnut ; the sides of the fore neck purplish 

 blue, the collar not complete, but slightly broken -with a fe^n' blue 

 spots on the feathers ; remainder of under surface from the chest 

 down^wards ■white, including the thighs and under tail-coverts, the 

 flanks ■with a very faint tinge of smoky bro^wn ; axillaries and under 

 ■wing-coverts pale smoky bro-wn, the outer edge of the ■wings mottled 

 ■with dusky bases to the feathers ; quills dusky below : '■'• bill black ; 

 feet bro^wn ; iris black" {David). Total length 6' 7 inches, culmen 

 0"35, ■wing 4-6, tail 3"4, tarsus 0-5. 



Adult female. Similar in colour to the male. Total length 

 6-2 inches, culmen 0-4, ■wing 4-7, tail 3, tarsus 0-45. 



06.5. If one accepts the broken pectoral collar as the best sign of 

 distinction bet^ween H. guiturulis and B. rustica, it ■will be found to 

 be so only in the majority of specimens, and by no means invariably ; 

 in fact there is as much variation ■with H.gutturulis in the direction 



