426 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
389. RIPARIA CHINENSIS (Gray). 
CHINESE BANK SWALLOW. 
Hirundo chinensis GRAY, in wick’s Illustr. Ind. Zool. (1830), 1, pl. 
35, fig. 3. 
Cotile sinensis SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1885), 10, 104; WireHrap, 
Ibis (1899), 236 (nesting). 
Clivicola sinensis SHARPE, Hand-List (1901), 3, 190; OATES and Ret, Cat. 
Birds’ Eggs (1903), 3, 232; McGrecor and Worcester, Hand-List 
(1901), 190. 
Luzon (Whitehead, Mearns, Curran). Formosa and southern 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 River in February. 
Genus HIRUNDO Linneus, 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. 
a‘. Under parts not streaked with blackish lines; rump uniform with the back. 
b*. Chin and throat chestnut, but the fore breast crossed by a more or less . 
complete band of glossy black. 
@. Dark: pectoral batid, camplete.ti2ick.. oa es rustica (p. 426) 
¢. Dark pectoral band more or less interrupted in the middle. 
gutturalis (p. 427) 
b%. Chin, throat, and fore breast entirely chestnut with no blackish color on 
IDTCA BE srccasececessecectess cocetashos cca eee capes ntact soeae ae See eee Senne ene mee arm javanica (p. 428) 
a’, Under parts conspicuously streaked with blackish; rump chestnut. 
striolata (p. 429) 
390. HIRUNDO RUSTICA Linneus. 
COMMON SWALLOW, 
Hirundo rustica Linna&us, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 191; SHARPE, 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1885), 10, 128; Hand-List (1901), 3, 192; 
Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1890), 2, 277; Oates and Rem, Cat. 
Birds’ Eggs (1903), 3, 237; McGrecor and WORCESTER, Hand-List 
(1906), 69. 
