436 Mr. R. Swinlioe's Ornitholoyical Xotts made at Chefoo. 



he compared the nests of the two so-called varieties, he would 

 not have doubted long as to their specific distinctness. It is 

 worth noting how closely the nest of our bird resembles that 

 of the Collocalm ! The Black Swift of Peking docs not appear 

 to visit Chefoo. It breeds at Pekin, building in the holes of 

 buildings a loose nest like that of a Span'ow. 



16. HiRUNDO GUTTURALIS, ScOp. 



Swallows of course had arrived before we did, and were as 

 familiar and as trustful of man as in the south. On the 4th 

 jVIay I noticed one out of a party flying over a village that had 

 a bright red tail. This, I fancy, must have been due to some 

 prank played on it by native boys. This is figured in the MS. 

 illustrations as the " Hill " or •' Rustic Swallow." 



17. Cecropis japoxica, Bp. 



The Daurian Swallow was not behind its congener; and 

 wherever the one was to be seen, the other was not far away. 



Their modes of incubation are diflFerent, and I have never 

 seen their nests near together; but their methods of food- 

 hunting attract each other, and thus they get associated. 

 Every afternoon they were to be seen about our hill ; and I 

 soon observed that they were not of the northern form that 

 resorts in summer to Peking, my C. arctivitta, but the larger 

 broad-banded species of the south, as above named. The 

 acquisition of a male, shot by my friend Mr. Carles, on 

 the 23rd May, proved that I was right in my surmise. It 

 measured in total length 6*75 inches; wing 4*5, first quill 

 a little shorter than the second and longest, 2 2 longer than 

 the tertiaries, 1"4 short of tail. Tail 37 long, outer rectrix 

 1*9 longer than centrals. Male on dissection; testes much 

 enlarged. On the 26th of the same month the same friend 

 shot a pair of this species. The female had the red nuchal 

 collar broken at the back, the sides of the nape less rufous, 

 the wings shorter, the long rectrices of the tail narrower, 

 with a faint whitish spot on each of them, thus differing from 

 the two males. 



This form of Daurian Swallow would appear, then, to be the 

 coast-species. It is figured in the !MS. Illustrations as the 

 " House," or " Domestic Swallow." 



