164 niRUNDINID^. 



Subsp. B. Hirundo erythropygia. 



Hirundo erythropygia, Si/kcs, F. Z. S. 1832, p. 83 ; Jerd. Madr. 

 Journ. xi. p. 237 (1840); Blijth, Ibis, 1866, pp. 237, 387; Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. i. p. 69, no. 806 (1869) ; Brooks, Ibis, 1869, pp. 46, 

 47; Bhjth, Ibis, 1870, p. 161; Cock Sf Marsh. Str. F. 1873, 

 p. 350 ; Adam, t. c. p. 370 ; Aiiken, Str. F. 1875, p. 212 ; Hume, 

 t. c. p. 318; Butler, t. c. p. 451; Walden, Ibis, 1876, p. 338; 

 Butler, Str. F. 1877, p. 226 ; Davidson ^ Wendvn, Str. F. 1878, 

 vol. ii. p. 76 ; Murray, t. c. p. 113 ; Leqr/e, B. Ceylon, p. 594 (1879) ; 

 Hume, Str. F. 1879,' p. 84; Butler, Cat. B. Sind ^c. p. 13 (1879); 

 id. Cat. B. S. Bomb. Fres. p. 14 (1880) ; id. Str. F. 1880, p. 377 ; 

 Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1880, p. 48; Vidal, Str. F. 1880, p. 43; 

 Butler, t. c. p. 377 ; Eeid, Str. F. 1881, p. 18 ; Davidson, Str. F. 1882, 

 p. 292 ; Davison, Str. F. 1883, p. 345 ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1883, p. 169. 



Hirundo daurica (non Fall.), Bh/th, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 198 

 (1849, pt.) ; Layard, Aim. 8f May. Kat. Hist. xii. p. 170 (1853) ; 

 id. Sf Kelaart, Prodr. Cat., App. p. 58 (1853) ; Cass. Cat. Hirund. 

 Mus. Fhilad. Acad. p. 4 (1853) ; Horsf. ^ Moore, Cat. B. E. I. Co. 

 Mus. i. p. 92 (1854, pt.) ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p .160 (1862, pt.) ; Bulger, 

 F. Z. S. 1866, p. 568 ; Holds^v. F. Z. S. 1872, p. 419 ; Murray, 

 Vertebr. Faun. Sind, p. 103 (1884). 



Cecropis daurica, Cass. Cat. Hirund. Mus. Fhilad. Acad. p. 4 (1853). 



Cecropis erythropygia, Gmdd, B. Asia, i. pi. 29 (1868) ; Jerd. Ibis, 

 1871, p. 362 ; Blyth, B. Burm. p. 127 (1875) ; Fairb. Str. F. 1876, 

 p. 254. 



Lillia erythropygia, Hume, Nests and Egys Ind. B. p. 76 (1873) ; id. 

 Str. F. 1877, p. 256. 



Adult. General colour above deep purplish blue, with white 

 striations where the bases of the feathers show through ; the wing- 

 coverts like the back ; quills blackish, externally glossed with dull 

 blue ; rump and upper tail-coverts deep ferruginous, the longer 

 coverts deep purplish blue ; tail-feathers blackish glossed with dull 

 blue ; crowu of head like the back, from which it is almost separated 

 by a nuchal collar of deep ferruginous, the sides of the hinder crown 

 and sides of the neck being of the latter colour and converging on 

 to the nape, the nuchal collar being only interrupted by a few dark- 

 blue plumes in the form of spots ; a narrow frontal line and a streak 

 over the eye deep ferruginous ; lores whitish, tipped with dusky ; 

 car-coverts pale rufous with dusky shaft-streaks ; cheeks, throat, 

 and under surface of body whitish, slightly marked with fulvous on 

 the breast and flanks ; the whole of the underparts narrowly 

 streaked with dusky blackish shaft-lines, disappearing on the under 

 tail-coverts, the long ones of which are deep blue-black with whitish 

 bases ; under wing-coverts and axillaries rather deeper fulvous than 

 the breast, with nearly obsolete dusky shaft-lines, which are, how- 

 ever, more plainly developed on the small wing-coverts near the 

 edge of the wing ; quiUs dusky below, paler along the edge of the 

 inner web : " bill, legs, and feet black ; iris brown " (Ler/ge). Total 

 length 6-2 inches, culmen 0-35, wing 4-45, tail 3-1, tarsus 0"5. 

 Mab. Indian Peninsula and Ceylon. 



a. Ad. sk. Decc&n (Sykes). India Museum. (Type of species.) 



6. Ad. sk. Madras (Jerdon). Gould Collection. 



