156 HIRUNDINID.B. 



y, r. Ad. sk. Tati, Matabele Land (F. W. E. and C. G. Gates, 

 Oates). Esqrs. [P.]. 



s. Ad. sk. Shupaufia, Zambesi (iSeV Livingstone Expedition. 



J. Kirk). 



i!. Ad. sk. Uom\yA&n. (Wakefield). E. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



u. 2 ad. sk. INIouibasa Town. J. M. llildebrandt [0.1. 



V. (S ad. sk. Kitui, Ukanda. J. M. Hildebrandt [C.J. 



18. Hirundo rufula. 



Hirundo dauiica, Savi, Orn. Tosc. iii. p. 201 (1831, nee L.) ; Seli/s 



Lonych. Ibu, 1S70, p. 453. 

 Hirundo alpestris {non Pall.), Bp. Faun. Ital., Ucc. Intr. p. xxx 



(1832); Heucfl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 158 (1869); Blanf. Geol. ^ 



Zool. Ahijss. p. 346 (1870). 

 Hirundo rufula, Temm. Alan. iii. p. 298 (1835, syn. excl.) ; Werner, 



Atlas, Cheliclones, pi. la; Schl. Sf Susem. Voy. Eur. vi. Taf. 1. tig. 2 



(c. 1839) ; Gray, Gen. B.i. p. 58 (1845); Schl. Rev. Crit. pp. xviii, 



41 (1844) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 339 (1850) ; Brehm, J. f. O. 1853, 



p. 453 ; Tristr. Ibis, 1859, p. 27 ; Linderm. Voy. Griechenl. p. 27 ; 



Simpson, Ibis, 1860, p. 289 ; Blasius, Xachtr. Naum. Voy. Deutschl. 



xiii. p. 209, Taf. 383. fig. 4 (1860) ; Dubois, CHs. Eur. pi. 34 



(e. 1862) ; Blasius, Ibis, 1862, p. 65 ; Grai/, Cat. Brit. B. p. 33 



(1863) ; Wriyht, Ibis, 1864, pp. 42, 57 ; Giylioli,Ibis, 1865, p. 51 ; 



Tristr. t. c. p. 79 ; id. Ibis, 1867, p. 362 ; Deyl. et Gerbe, Orn. Eur. 



1. p. 590 (1867) ; Doderl. Avif. Sicil.-^. 144 (1869) ; Gray, Hand-l. 



B. i. p. 69, no. 808 (1869); Saunders, Ibis, 1869, p. 396; Sehjs 



Longeh. Ibis, 1870, p. 453 ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 314 ; Salvad. 



Failn. Ital, Ucc. p. 53 (1871) ; Shelley, B. Eyypt, p. 122 (1872) ; 



Dresser, B. Eur. iii. p. 487, pi. 161 (1875) ; Lilford, Ibis, 1875, 



p. 16; Cordeaux, t. c. p. 184; Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 188; Blanf. 



East. Persia, ii. p. 215 (1876) ; Giylioli, Elench. Ucc. Ital. p. 64 



(1881); id. Ibis, 1881, p. 192; B. O. U. List Brit. B. p. 43 



(1883) ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1883, p. 169. 

 Hirundo capensis (7iec Gm.), Duraz. Ucc. Liy. p. 14 (1840). 

 Cecropis rufula, Boie, Isis, 1844, p. 174 ; Cass. Cat. Hirund. Mris. 



Philad. Acad. p. 4 (1853) ; Vierth. Naum. 1855, p. 472 ; Gould, B. 



Asia, i. pi. 27 (1868). 

 Cecropis alpestris {non Pall.), Heuyl. Syst. Uebers. p. 16 (1856) ; 



Boryyr. Voyelf. NorddeutscM. p. 100 (1869) ; Severts. Tnrkest. 



Jemtn. p. 67 (1873). 

 Hirundo (Cecropis) rufula, Jaub. et Barth.-Lap. Rich. Orn. p. 308, 



pi. 19. fig. 1 (1859). 

 LiUia rufula, Boie, J. f. 0. 1838, p. 364. 

 Hirundo daurica (nec'L.), Wriyht, Ibis, 1864, pp. 42, 57, & 1874, 



p. 233. 



Adult male (Smyrna, May 24). General colour above glossy 

 purplish blue, with white streaks on the back where the white 

 bases to the feathers show through ; wiug-coverts like the back ; 

 bastard-wing feathers, primary-coverts, and quills blackish, exter- 

 nally washed with dull steel-blue ; rump pale' cinnamon-rufous, 

 verging into creamy white on the upper tail-coverts, the longer 

 ones of which are purplish blue with pale cinnamon-buff bases ; 

 tail-feathers blackish glossed with dull blue ; crown of head 

 purplish blue, forming a cap, which is separated from the mantle 



