THE RED-RUMPED SWALLOW. 



507 



British Isles have been reported from western France, north-west 

 Spain, Cape Province, Orange Free State and East Griqualand, 

 and another (ringed as a breeding adult) from Natal. 



Distribution. — Abroad. — Europe, north-west Africa and western 

 parts of Asia. Wintering in tropical and south Africa, India and 

 its isla,nds. Casual Spitsbergen, Jan Mayen, Greenland and Novaya 

 Zemlia. Occasional Faeroes and Iceland. Replaced by allied 

 forms in Syria (? Asia Minor), Egypt, north Asia to Japan, and 

 North America, all being migrants, wintering far south. 



HIRUNDO DAURICA. 

 208. Hirundo daurica rufula Temm. 

 SWALLOW. 



-THE RED-RUMPED 



HiRTJNDO RUFULA Temminck, Man. d'Orn., 2, ed. iii, p. 298 (1835 — 



Egypt, Sicily, S. Africa, Japan. S. Africa ex Levaillant, whose locality 



is not trustworthy. Japan erroneous. Restricted typical locality : 



Egypt). 



Hirundo rufula, W. E. Clarke, Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1906, p. 205, 1908, 



p. 83 ; Saunders, Brit. B., i, p. 11. 



Description. — Adult male and 

 female. Winter. — A few feathers 

 on fore-head chestnut, rest of fore- 

 head and crown dark metallic -blue, 

 mantle and scapulars same but 

 middle portion of feathers white 

 showing here and there ; broad 

 band on nape extending to sides of 

 neck and to eye and joining line 

 over eye chestnut ; lower back and 

 rump chestnut ; lower part of rump 

 jmler and upper tail-coverts rufous- 

 buff, long upper tail-coverts dark 

 metallic -blue ; lores buff tipped 

 blackish ; ear-coverts rufous-buff ; 

 whole under-parts buff to rufous- 

 buff, feathers with fine dark brown 

 shaft -lines much more marked in 

 some individuals than in others ; 

 short under tail-coverts buff, rest 

 black glossed greenish-blue and 

 with buff bases ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries as rest of 

 under - parts ; tail black - brown 

 glossed greenish- blue ; outer pair 

 of feathers sometimes with grey 

 mark on inner webs ; wing-feathers 

 same, inner webs very narrowl}' edged huffish, innermost secondaries 



The Refl-rnmi3ed Swallow 

 (Hirundo d. rufula). 



