426 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



389. RIPARIA CHINENSIS (Gray). 

 CHINESE BANK SWALLOW. 



Hirundo chineusis Gray, in Hardwick's lUustr. Ind. Zool. (1830), 1, pi. 



35, fig. 3. 

 Cotile sinensis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1885), 10, 104; Whitehead, 



Ibis (1899), 236 (nesting). 

 Clivicola sinensis Shakpe, Hand-List (1901), 3, 190; Gates and Reid, Cat. 



Birds' Eggs (1903), 3, 232; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List 



(1901), 190. 



Luzon {Whitehead, Mearns, Ctm'ran) . Formosa and soutliern China; in 

 winter to Indian Peninsula and Indo-Chinese countries. 



Adult. — Above light earthy brown, lighter on the rump; wings and 

 tail darker brown; chin, throat, breast, sides of head and of neck pale 

 gray; abdomen, vent, sides, and under tail-coverts white. Length, about 

 100; wing, 89; tail, 40; depth of fork, 5; bill from nostril, 4; tarsus, 9. 



Young. — "The young bird has all the feathers of the upper plumage 

 and wings broadly margined with rufous, and the chin, throat, and 

 breast are pale rufous." (Oates.) 



The Chinese bank swallow is considerably smaller and has a less deeply 

 forked tail than the preceding species. Whitehead found it fairly com- 

 mon in northern Luzon and observed numbers entering their nesting- 

 holes in the high banks of the Abra Eiver in February. 



Genus HIEUNDO Linnaeus, 1758. 



Plumage blackish above, glossed with blue or green, and the feathers 

 with white bases; no white band on rump; tail deeply forked, in some 

 species the outermost feathers attenuated and extending beyond the closed 

 wings. 



Species. 



o'. Under parts not streaked with blackish lines; rump uniform with the back. 

 &\ Chin and throat chestnut, but the fore breast crossed by a more or less 

 complete band of glossy black. 



c^. Dark pectoral band complete rustica (p. 426) 



<f. Dark pectoral band more or less interrupted in the middle. 



gutturalis ( p. 427 ) 

 6'. Chin, throat, and fore breast entirely chestnut with no blackish color on 



breast - javanica (p. 428) 



a'. Under parts conspicuously streaked with blackish; rump chestnut. 



striolata (p. 429) 

 390. HIRUNDO RUSTICA Linnceus. 



COMMON SWALLOW, 



Hirundo rustica LiNN^us, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 191; Shakpe, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1885), 10, 128; Hand-List (1901), 3, 192; 

 Gates, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1890), 2, 277; Gates and Reid, Cat. 

 Birds' Eggs (1903), 3, 237; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List 

 (1906), 69. 



