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4, HIRUNDO SATURATA Stejneger, MS. 
Sp. cu.—Similar to H. erythrogastra, but much more richly colored 
beneath, the lower parts in the male being about the same color as the 
throat of the male in H. erythrogastra, and of the female a shade darker 
than the same parts in the male of that species. Adult male (No. 89165 
Petropaulovski, June 28, 1882): Upper parts rich violaceous steel-blue 
(exactly as in H. erythrogastra), the wings and tail less glossy and more 
greenish; forehead, malarregion, chin, and throat, rich chestnut (a shade 
darker, especially on throat, than in erythrogastra), the steel-blue of the 
neck encroaching on the sides of the jugulum, and extending interrupt- 
edly across the latter in thé form of a narrow, broken collar; remaining 
lower parts rich chestnut rufous. Rectrices marked with white, exactly 
as in erythrogastra. Wing 4.70, lateral tail feathers 4.15, middle pair 
1.75, culmen .30, width of bill at base .25, tarsus .40, middle toe .40. 
Adult female (No. 89166, same locality and date): Similar to the male, but 
chestnut of forehead less extensive, that of throat, etc., paler, the lower 
parts paler rufous, but still a shade or so darker than in the male of H. 
erythrogastra. Wing 4.60, lateral rectrices 3.60, middle pair 1.85. 
This elegant swallow needs no comparison with the Japanese H. 
gutturalis, which is pure white beneath, and otherwise very different. 
(?) ANTHUS JAPONICUS Temm. & Schleg. (A. stejnegeri, sp. nov., if 
distinct.) 
Sp. cu.—Adult, summer plumage: Above light raw-umber brown, 
very distinctly streaked with black, these markings broadest on the back, 
the exterior feathers of which have the inner webs chiefly dull whitish, 
producing, when the feathers lie in natural position, a distinct stripe 
on each side of the interscapular region ; scapulars much less distinctly 
streaked with dusky, and without light edgings; middle wing coverts 
dusky, broadly and very distinctly streaked with brownish white; greater 
coverts more narrowly tipped with brownish white or very pale buff, 
and edged with light brown; remiges dusky, edged with light brown; 
middle rectrices similar, but others dusky, the outer pair mostly dull 
brownish white, or pale dull buff, with a dull brownish dusky space 
along edge of basal half of inner web; next feather with the outer web 
pale dull brownish buff, and the inner web with the terminal portion 
and stripe along shaft, nearly to the base, of the same color. Lower parts 
buffy white, the whole jugulum yellowish buff, of varying intensity, and 
distinctly, though not always sharply, streaked with dull black ; super- 
ciliary stripe and side of head generally pale buff, the auriculars more 
brownish, especially along upper margin, where sometimes streaked 
with dusky ; a small dusky spot immediately in front of eye, and throat 
sometimes bordered along each side by an interrupted series of narrow 
blackish streaks (these usually, however, nearly or quite obsolete) ; sides 
and flanks streaked with blackish, and longer lower tail-coverts also. 
sometimes streaked. Maxilla brownish black, the tomia light brown- 
