Mr. R, Swinhoc on Birds from Hakodadi. 151 



govinda, Sykcs. Our ordinary bird will probably be the M. 

 major of Hume. 



2. Small Chimney-Swallow. Hirundo gutturalis, Scop. 

 Two males, both shot in May. One is evidently an older 



bird than the other, with the white tail-spots larger, and with 

 the underparts tinged with pink. They are of precisely the 

 same species that summers everywhere along the China coast. 



3. Black-chinned Martin. Chelidon blakistoni. (Plate 

 VII. fig. 1.) 



Chelidon blakistoni, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1862, p. 320; Ibis, 

 1863, p. 90. 



A male specimen, shot at Hakodadi in May, has been sent, 

 which entirely agrees with the typical male procured before 

 in July, except as regards the under tail-coverts, which arc 

 brownish at tips in the present skin, instead of black as in 

 the former one. They may heighten in colour as the bird 

 gets older. 



This Black-chinned Martin has a near ally in the smaller 

 Delichon nipalensis, Hodgs., of Nepaul, and also, indeed, in the 

 Hirundo dasypus, Bonap., of Borneo ; but in the description 

 of the latter (Consp, Av. p. 343) no mention is made of the 

 black chin. 



Blakiston, in his letter to me under date 4 Aug. 1873, 

 says, "■ shot nine specimens yesterday, not yet skinned, mea- 

 sure 5 to 5j and 4 to 4| ; builds against overhanging cliffs." 

 This bird has not turned up in China on its southward mi- 

 gration, and very possibly, with Sturnia pyrrhogenys, and 

 probably other species, goes direct south to the Philippines 

 to pass the winter, if, indeed, it does not extend to Borneo, 

 and prove to be identical with H. dasypus mentioned above ^. 



To contrast with the bird from Japan the acting editor has 



* I wrote and requested Mr. Gustav Schlegel, of Batavia, who is now 

 residing with his father, Dr. H. Schlegel, at Leiden, to examine the spe- 

 cimens of Hirundo dasyims for me. He reports that the Leiden museimi 

 has two skins from Borneo, which look like those of young birds, that 

 they both have black on the chins and are dingy on tlie under parts. This 

 strengthens my supposition that the Borneo bird may be the same as that 

 from North Japan. 



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