144 HIRUNDINID^. 



e'. Ad. sk. Sula Islands. A. R.Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



/. 2 ad. sk. Bouroii. A. E.Wallace, Esq. [C.J. 



</'. § ad. sk. Dobbo, Am Islands. Voy. H.M.S. ' Chal- 



leng'ei'.' 



h', (^ ad. sk. Dorey, New Guinea. A. R.Wallace, Esq. [0.1. 



«■'. Ad. sk. Port Moresby {Stone). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.J. 



k'. Ad. sk. Astrolabe Mountains, Mr. A. Goldie [0.]. 



S.E. New Guinea. 



v. c? ad. sk. Eedscar Islands, off' S.E, J. Macgillivray, Esq. 



coast of New Guinea. [C]. 



vi-p'. Ad. sk. Torres Straits (Cockerell). F. D. Godman, and 0. 



Salvin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



4. Hirundo neoxena. 



Hirundo javanica (nee Sparrm.), Viq. Sf Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. 



p. 191 (1827) ; J. E. Gray in Griffith's An'. Kingd. ii. p. 9.5 (1829). 

 Hirundo pacifica {nee Lath.), J. E. Gra-y in Griffith's An. Kinyd. ii. 



pi. to p. 96 (1829). 

 Hirundo neoxena, Gould, P. Z. S. 1842, p. 131 ; id. B. Austr. fol. ii, 



pi. 1.3 (1848) ; myth, Cat. B. Mas. As. Soc. p. 198 (1849) ; Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 338 (18.50) ; Cab. Mws. Hein. Th. i. p. 46 (1850) ; 



Digyles, Orn. Austr. pi. 22. fig. 1 (1870). 

 Hirundo frontalis {^lec Q. (^ G.), Gray, Cat. Fissir. Brit. Mus. p. 22 



(1848); Cass. Cat. Hirtmd. Phila'd. Mus. p. 2 (18-53); Gould, 



Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 107 (1865) ; Ramsay, Lbis, 1868, p. 275 ; 



Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 70, no. 812 (1869, pt.) ; Ramsay, Pr. Linn. 



Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 179 (1878). 

 Hirundo rustica, var. frontalis, Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. ii. p. 172 



(1883). 



Adult male. General colour above glossy blue, the mantle slightly 

 varied with greyish-white bases to the feathers ; lesser and median 

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

 coverts, and quills blackish brown, externally washed with steel-blue, 

 more distinct on the inner secondaries ; tail-feathers blackish, slightly 

 glossed with green, the two centre feathers and the outermost on 

 each side without any spots, the others with a small rounded spot of 

 white on the inner web ; frontal band deep brick-red, extending from 

 ahove each eye ; lores dusky blackish ; ear-coverts glossy blue like 

 the back ; cheeks and throat brick-red ; remainder of under surface 

 of body mouse-brown from the fore neck downwards ; the lower 

 abdomen inclining slightly to ashy whitish ; under tail-coverts pale 

 smokv brown with dull whitish edgings and tips, with a heart-shaped 

 subterminal spot of black ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale 

 smoky brown, all edged with pale rufous ; quills dusky brown below : 

 "bUl and legs black; iris dark brown" (Gould). Total length 5'8 

 inches, culmen 0-3, wing 4-25, tail 2-75, tarsus 0-35. 



Ohs. The description is taken from a specimen of Strange's in the 

 Gould Collection. It agrees with two skins in Mr. Seebohm's cabinet 

 from New South Wales, with the exception that the latter have an 

 oblique mark of white on the outer tail-feathers, very indistinct and 

 ill-defined in one example and very strongly marked in the other. 



