140 HIEDNDINID^. 



Subsp. ^. Hirundo tytleri. 



Hii'imdo tytleri, Jerd. B. Ind iii. App. p. 870 (1864) ; Blyth, Ibis, 

 ]86r., p. 336; Gray, Hcmd-l. B. i. p. (J8, uo. 790 (1869) ; Hume, 

 Sir. F. 1875, p. 41 ; Wahl in Blyth B. Bunn. p. 127 (1875); 

 WardlawRmnsay,Ibis,\S77, p. 460; Hume Sf Davison, Str.F. 1878, 

 p. 41; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 84; Simson, Ibis, 1882, p. 84; 

 Godwin-Aiost. t. c. p. 345 ; Oatcs, B. Brit. Barm. i. p. 304 (1883) ; 

 Scelohm, Hist. Brit. B. ii. p. 171 (1883). 

 Hirundo caLirica {nee Licht.), Godivin-Aust. J. A. S. B, 1874, p. 152. 

 Hirundo americaiia, Blakist. Ibis, 1876, p. 331. 



Hirundo saturata, Ridgway, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1883, p. 95 {ex 

 Stejneyrv, MSS.). 

 ArTuU «iaZe (Irkutsk, May Slat). General colour above glossy pur- 

 plish blue, the mantle and scapulars streaked with reddish white 

 where the bases of the feathers show thi^ough ; lesser and median 

 wing-coverts like the back ; greater coverts and secondaries blackish 

 edged with the same purplish blue as the back ; innermost greater 

 coverts ashy on their inner web, tinged with rufous ; bastard-wing, 

 primary-coverts, and quills blackish, externally glossed with steel- 

 green ; tail-feathers blackish, glossed with steel-green, all but the 

 centre feathers with a spot of pale rufous on the inner web, getting 

 larger towards the outermost, where it is in the form of a large 

 oblique mark ; frontal band deep chestnut ; lores black ; ear-coverts 

 and sides of neck glossy purplish blue ; cheeks and throat deep 

 chestnut, with a half-collar of glossy purplish blue coming down on 

 the sides of the fore neck but not forming a band across ; remainder 

 of imder surface of body bright chestnut, not so deep as the throat ; 

 the under tail-coverts equally bright chestnut like the breast, and 

 having slightly indicated spots of purplish blue at the ends of the 

 feathers ; axillaries and under wing-coverts exactly like the breast, 

 the coverts near the edge of the wing slightly mottled with ashy 

 bases to the feathers ; quills dusky below. Total length 7*8 inches, 

 culmen 0-4, wing 4-8, tail 4-8, tarsus 0-4. 



The bird described from Irkutsk is in full breeding-plumage, and 

 there can be no doubt that //. tytleri is only the same bird in its 

 winter home. There is no complete collar on the neck, but there 

 are in several specimens indications of black markings in the centre 

 of the fore neck which would go far towards forming an indistinct 

 collar, and would bring the species nearer to H. savignii. Some 

 specimens of H. tytleri approach so closely the North-American 

 H. liorreorum that they can scarcely be distinguished, and indeed 

 the two species seem to run one into the other. 



Hob. E.Siberia andKamtschatka in summer, wintering in Burmah. 



a 9 ad. sk. Petropaulowski, Kamtschatka, Dr. L. Stejneger [P.]. 



Aug. 23. 



5 c. c? ad. sk. Petropaulowski, Kamtschatka, E. B. Sliarpe,Esq. [P.]. 



June 1883 {Dyhowski). 



d. S ad. sk. Irkutsk, May 31. Purchased. 



e f (I Ad. sk. Kliasia Hills (Jerdon). Gould Collection. 



h Ad. sk. Myitk-yo, Pegu, Feb. 1875. E. W. Gates, Esq. [C.]. 



i. S ad. sk. Wau, Pegu, March 20, 1874. E. W. Gates, Esq. [0.]. 



k. Ad. sk. Tenasseiim {Heifer). India Museum. 



I. Ad. sk. Brazil. Sclater Collection. 



m. Juv. sk. Para. R. Graham, Esq. [P.]. 



