200 HIRTINBINID^. 



slight smoky tinge ; under wing-coverts and axillaries dull sandy- 

 brown, the outer coverts mottled with blackish bases ; quills dusky 

 below, lighter brown along the inner webs : " bill blackish grey ; 

 legs and feet olive-grey; iris blackish brown" {Gould). Total 

 length 4-6 inches, culmen 0-3, wing 3-7, tail 1-9, tarsus 0-4. 



Hab. From Port Denison to New South Wales, Victoria, and 

 South Australia. 



fl. 5 ad. sk. Moreton Bay {F. Strange). Gould Collection. 



b. Ad. sk. Queensland. Gould Collection. 



e. Ad. sk. Queensland {J. T. Cock- F. D. Godman and 0. Salvin, 



erell). Esqrs. [P.]. 



d, e. Ad. St. N.E. Australia. Sir T. Mitchell [P.]. 



9. Petrochelidon fluvicola. 



? Red-headed Swallow, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 2, p. 57, pi. Ivi. 

 (1783). 



? Hirundo erythrocephala, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 1024 (1788, ex 

 Lath.) ; Gray, Cat. Fissir. Brit. Mus. p. 25 (1848). 



Herse erythrocephala, Bp. Consp. i. p. 340 (1850). 



Hirundo fluvicola, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxiv. p. 470 (1855, ex Jerd. 

 MSS.) ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 101 (1862) ; Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 337 ; 

 Blanf. Ibis, 18G7, p. 462; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 70, no. 819 

 (1869); Jerd. Ibis, 1871, p. 352 ; Hayes Lloyd, Ibis, 1873, p. 406; 

 Hume, Nests and Egys Ind. B. p. 80 (1873) ; Ada^n, Str. F. 1873, 

 p. 370 ; Aitken, Str. F. 1875, p. 213 ; Bidler, t. c. p. 439 ; Davidson 

 i^ Wenden, Str. F. 1878, vol. ii. p. 76 ; Hnme, t. c. p. 97 ; Ball, 

 t. c. p. 202 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 84 ; Butler, Cat. B. Sind etc. 

 p. 13 (1879) ; id. Cat. B. S. Bomb. Pres. p. 14 (1880) ; Vidal, 

 Str. F. 1880, p. 43 ; Butler, t. c. p. 378 ; Davidson ^ Wenden, 

 Str. F. 1882, p. 293. 



Lagenoplastes empusa, Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 337 (ex Gould, MSS.). 



Hirundo fluminicola, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 832. 



Lagenoplastes fluvicola, Gotdd, B. Asia, i. pi. 33 (1868) ; Hume, 

 Str. F. 1875, p. 452; Fairb. Str. F. 1876, p. 254; Butler, Str. F. 

 1877, p. 217. 



Adult male. General colour above glossy blue-black, mottled with 

 white streaks where the bases to the feathers show through ; lesser 

 wing-coverts like the back, the remainder dusky blackish, glossed 

 with steel-green externally ; rump and upper tail-coverts dark 

 smoky brown, mottled with blackish bases to the feathers, many of 

 which are glossed with blue ; upper tail-coverts smoky brown ; tail- 

 feathers blackish with a slight steel-green gloss ; crown of head 

 dull brick-red with blackish shaft-lines ; lores white, separated 

 from the forehead by a line of black ; ear-coverts dusky brown, 

 with narrow streaks of fulvous-brown ; cheeks, throat, and breast 

 white, broadly streaked with blackish shafts ; abdomen and under 

 tail-coverts pure white, with narrow dusky shaft-lines ; sides of 

 body smoky brown, streaked with blackish shaft-lines ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries also dark smoky brown, with narrow shaft- 

 lines of darker brown ; quiUs dusky below, paler along the inner 



