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389. RIPARIA CHINENSIS (Gray). 

 CHINESE BANK SWALLOW. 



Hirundo chinensis GBAY, in Hardwick's Illustr. Ind. Zool. (1830), 1 f pi. 



35, fig. 3. 

 Cotile sinensis SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1885), 10, 104; WHITEHEAD, 



Ibis (1899), 236 (nesting). 

 Clivicola sinensis SHABPE, Hand-List (1901), 3, 190; GATES and REID, Cat. 



Birds' Eggs (1903), 3, 232; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List 



(1901), 190. 



Luzon ( Whitehead, M earns, 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 Linnaeus, 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 1 . Under parts not streaked with blackish lines; rump uniform with the back. 

 6 1 . Chin and throat chestnut, but the fore breast crossed by a more or less 

 complete band of glossy black. 



c 1 . Dark pectoral band complete rustica (p. 426) 



c*. 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 



breast * javanica (p. 428) 



a 1 . Under parts conspicuously streaked with blackish ; rump chestnut. 



striolata (p. 429) 

 390. HIRUNDO RUSTICA Linnaeus. 



COMMON SWALLOW. 



Hirundo rustica LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 191; SHARPE, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1885), 10, 128; Hand-List (1901), 3, 192; 

 GATES, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1890), 2, 277; GATES and REID, Cat. 

 Birds' Eggs (1903), 3, 237; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List 

 (1906), 69. 



