190 niEtramNiD,^. 



Brinr/e. Noiih America ; Ccutral America ; and South America 

 to Brazil and Peru. Antilles. South Africa. Australia and the 

 Papuan Islands. Central India. 



Key to the Species. 



a. A frontal band of sandy buff or rufous. 



a'. Rump whity brown ; throat whitish with tiny I nigricans, p. 190. 



black streaks I timoriensis, p. 102. 



b' . Rump rufous ; throat rufous. 



a". Frontal baud pale sandy buff; no complete 



rufous coUar round the nape ; base of chin 



black ; on the lower throat a larjre patch of 



steel-blue feathers ; flanks ashy brown .... injrrhotiota, p. 103. 



b". Frontal band deep chestnut ; round the nape 



a narrow rufous collar, continuous with the 



ear-corerts. 



a'". Base of chin black ; on the throat a small 



patch of blue-black feathers ; flanks ashy 



brown sivainsoni, p. 194, 



&'". ISo black on the chin ; no throat-patch of 

 blue-black feathers ; the throat and breast 



rufous like the flanks fulva, p. 195. 



c. Rump rufous ; throat white ; a rufous band 



across the fore neck nificollaris, p. 196. 



b. A nan-ow line of rufous across the extreme base of 



the forehead ; head blue like the back ; rump 

 rufous ; under surface rufous, deep chestnut on 

 throat and under tail-coverts :•••.•• rujiyula, p. 197. 



c. No frontal baud ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 



xmifoi-m pale rufous ; long upper and under tail- 

 coverts blue-black, with narrow rufous tips .... spilodera, p. 198. 



d. Entire head rufous. 



d'. Rump conspicuously creamy white ; throat 



narrowly streaked with dusky shaft-lines .... ariel, p. 109. 



e'. Rump smoky brown, mottled with dusky bases 

 to the feathers ; throat and fore neck broadly 

 and distinctly streaked with black fluvicula, p. 200. 



1. Petrochelidon nigricans. 



Hirundo nigricans, Vieill. N. Did. d'Hist. Nat. xiv. p. 52.3 (1817) ; 

 Qimj et Gaim. Voy. AstroL, Zool. i. p. 205, pi. 12. fig. 2 (1830) ; 

 Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 68 (1845) ; id. Cat. Fissir. Brit. Mm. p. 24 

 (1848) ; id. P. Z. S. 1858. pp. 171, 189 ; id. Cat. B. Neio Gtnnea, 

 pp 18, 54 (1859) ; id. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 433 ; Finsch, Neu-Ghtinea, 

 p 162 (1865) ; Grm/, Handel. B. i. p. 70, no. 817 (1869); Bidlcr, 

 B N. Zeal. p. 141 (1873) ; Finsch, Ibis, 1881, p. 536; Btdkr, Man. 

 B. N. Zeal. p. 6 (1882). 



Dun-rumped Swallow, Lath. Gen. Hist. vii. p. .309 (1823), 



Hirundo pvrrhonota, Viy. ^- Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 190 

 (1826, ex Lath. MSS., nee V.). 



Herse nigricans. Less. Compl. Buff. viii. p. 497 (1837) ; Gray, Gen. 

 B. i. p. 58 (1845) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 340 (1850) ; Rosenb. J.f. O. 

 1864, p. 120. 



