162 HIRTJNDINID^. 



Adult mah (tj'pe of species). General colour above dai'k purplish 

 blue, the back perceptibly streaked ■with white where the white 

 bases to the feathers show through ; lesser and median wing-coverts 

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

 quills black, washed with purplish blue externally ; lower back and 

 rump light chestnut-rufous, with narrow blackish shaft-lines, not 

 very distinct ; upper tail-coverts purplish blue with rufous bases ; 

 tail-feathers black washed with purpUsh blue ; head like the back, 

 with a few streaks of rufous on the hind neck ; no rufous on base 

 of forehead ; loral plumes dusky with whitish bases, surrounded by 

 a narrow streak o£ rufous ; from behind the eye a triangular patch 

 of dull chestnut, extending on the sides of the neck, but not meeting 

 behind the nape; ear-coverts dingy fulvous, with blackish shaft- 

 streaks ; checks and under surface of body light fulvous, more silky 

 white on the throat and a little deeper buff on the sides of the body ; 

 all the under surface from the chin to the vent streaked with distinct 

 blackish centres to the feathers, broader on the throat and bi'east ; 

 under tail-coverts fulvescent, with broad and conspicuous tips of 

 blue-black ; under wing-coverts and axiUaries pale fulvescent, with 

 narrow shaftJiues of black, the outer coverts more strongly mottled 

 with blackish central markings ; quills dusky below, more ashy along 

 the edge of the inner web. Total length 7'6 inches, culmen 0-35, 

 wing 5-05, tail 4, tarsus 0-6. {Mus Lugd.) 



Adidt female. Does not differ from the male in colour. Total 

 length 7 inches, wing 5-1, tail 3-67, tarsus 0'65. 



Ols. H. striolata is a sHghtly larger race of H. japonica, with the 

 wing 5'05-5*l inches in length, and with coarser and broader shaft- 

 stripes below. A still darker race seems to occur in the Karen 

 Hills in Burmah, where CajDt. Wardlaw E,amsay discovered it. 



Hah. Java ; ? extending northwards into Burmah. 



a. Ad. sk. Java. Leiden Museum [P.]. 



Subsp. y. Hirundo japonica. 



Hirundo alpestris japonica, Temm. ^ Schh Fmin. Jap., AveSy'p. 38, 



pi. 11 (1850). 

 Hirundo japonica, Bp. Consp. i. p. 340 (1850) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 69, no.'809 (18G9). 

 Hinmdo daiu'ica, Swinh. Ibis, 18G0, p. 48, 1863, pp. 89, 255; id. 



P. Z. S. 1863, p. 18 ; id. Ibis, 1870, p. 90. 

 Cecropis japonica. Cass. Cat. Hirund. Mus. Philad. Acad. p. 4 (1853) ; 



Sicinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 346; id. Ibis, 1874, p. 436. 

 Hirundo striolata {non Temm. ^ Schl.), Wall. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 485; 



Wald. B. Burm. p. 127 (1875, pt.) ; Hume Sf Davison, Str. F. 



1878, p. 44 ; Oates, B. Br. Burm. i. p. 305 (1883). 

 Cecropis japonica, David <$• Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 127 (1877); Blakist. 



Sf Pryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 231 ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, p. 30. 

 LiUia japonica, Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 261. 

 Lillia substriolata, Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 264. 

 Cecropis erythropygia {nee Sykes), Blakist. i$- Pryer, B. Japaii, p. 139 



(1882). 

 Hirundo striolata, /3. substriolata, Seebohm, Ibis, 1883, p. 169. 

 Hirundo striolata, y. japonica, Seebohm, t. c. p. 160. 



