HIRUNDO. 427 
Mindanao (Mearns); Palawan (Whitehead). Europe, northern Asia, Indian 
Peninsula, Manchuria, China, and Indo-Chinese provinces; in winter to Africa’ 
and Malay Peninsula. 
“Coloration.—Forehead, chin, and throat chestnut; lores black ; upper 
plumage and wing-coverts glossy purplish blue; quills and tail black, 
suffused with glossy green; all the tail-feathers, except the middle pair, 
with a white patch on the inner web; sides of head and neck and a very 
broad pectoral band glossy black, a few of the feathers of the latter part 
narrowly fringed with chestnut; lower plumage from the pectoral band 
downward pale rufous, becoming rather darker on the under tail-coverts. 
Length, up to 203; tail, up to 114; wing, 127; tarsus, 13; bill from 
gape, 15; bifurcation of tail, about 68. 
“The young bird does not differ very much from the adult, but has 
the color of its plumage very dull.” (Oates.) 
391. HIRUNDO GUTTURALIS Scopoli. 
EASTERN SWALLOW. 
Hirundo gutturalis Scopout, Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr. (1786), 2, 96; 
SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1885), 10, 184; Hand-List (1901), 3, 
193; WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 236; Oares and Rem, Cat. Birds’ Eggs 
(1903), 3, 238; McGrecor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 70. 
Basilan (Bourns & Worcester); Bohol (McGregor); Cagayan Sulu (McGre- 
gor); Calayan (McGregor) ; Cebu (McGregor) ; Cuyo (McGregor); Fuga (Mce- 
Gregor) ; Guimaras (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester); Luzon (Everett, Steere 
Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Maestre de Campo (McGregor € Wor- 
cester); Mindanao (Steere EHaxp., Bourns & Worcester); Mindoro (Bourns & 
Worcester); Palawan (Bourns & Worcester); Panay (Steere Exp., Bourns & 
Worcester) ; Semirara (Worcester); Sibay (McGregor & Worcester); Siquijor 
(Bourns & Worcester) ; Sulu (Bourns & Worcester) ; Ticao (McGregor). Malay 
Peninsula and Archipelago, Indo-Chinese provinces; central and eastern Siberia, 
China, Japan, New Guinea, Australia. 
Adult (sexes similar).—Forehead, chin, and throat dark chestnut, 
lores black ; upper parts dark steel-blue; feathers of hind neck and upper 
-back with much white basally; sides of head and neck, and a broad, 
more or less interrupted, band on breast steel-blue; rest of under parts 
white, sometimes tinged with pale salmon-pink; wings and tail black, 
glossed with green; each of the rectrices except middle pair with a 
large white spot on inner web. Length, about 175; wing, 118; tail, 90; 
depth of fork, 47; bill from nostril, 6; tarsus, 10. 
Young birds have the forehead, chin, and throat brown or whitish, 
and the breast-band and sides of head earthy brown. 
Typical specimens of the common and eastern swallows are no doubt 
very distinct, but the two forms appear to intergrade so that some 
authors have rejected the latter species, although it seems now to be 
generally recognized. Sharpe says in part: “If one accepts the broken 
pectoral collar as the best sign of distinction between H. gutturalis and 
