254 HIRUNDINID/E. 



764. Chelidon Cashmiriensis, Gould, P. Z. s. 1858, p. 356; 



Adams, t.c. p. 494; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 167; Sivinh., Ibis, 1863, p. 90; 

 Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. B.^. 152 ; Dresser, B. Eur. iii. p. 498 ; Brooks, 

 Sir. F. 1875, p. 231 ; Hume, Sir. F. 1879, p. 84. Hirundo Cashmiriensis, 

 Seebohm, Hist. Br. B. iii. p. 179. The CASHMERE HOUSE MARTIN. 



Above deep black with steel blue reflections ; crown of the head the same ; 

 rump white, tinged with smoky brown and with faint dusky shaft lines, inner- 

 most secondaries narrowly tipped with white ; upper tail coverts smoky white 

 with dusky shaft lines, the long ones dull blue black ; tail blackish, also the 

 lores ; ear coverts and cheeks white, the upper edge of the former dusky 

 blackish ; under surface of the body dull whitish ; throat, foreneck and chest 

 white, washed with smoky brown ; under tail coverts white, with smoky bases 

 and dusky shaft streaks ; under wing coverts and axillaries darker smoky 

 brown ; legs fleshy white ; iris brown. 



Length. 5 inches; wing 4 ; tail 2' 2; tarsus 0*5 ; culmen o'3. 



Sab. Probably (Sharpe) confined to the Himalayas during summer, de- 

 scending to the valleys and plains of India in winter. Jerdon records it from 

 Darjeeling. Hume says it breeds only in the interior of the Himalayas, and 

 lays in April and May, but it is said to have a second brood during the rains. 

 The nest is made of mud, and is shallow and cup-shaped with a largish 

 aperture, very close one above the other. They build against the roof of 

 houses. 



785. Chelidon lagOpUS (Pallas), Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. x. 

 p. 93. Chelidon lagopoda, Swinh., Ibis, 1863, p. 91 ; David and Oust., Ots. 

 Chine, p. 130; Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, p. 17; Oates, B. Br. Burm. i. p. 311. 

 Hirundo lagopoda, Pall., Zoogr. Ross-Asiat. i. p. 532 ; Seebohm, Hist. Br. B. 

 iii. p. 179. Chelidon urbica (non Z.), Tickell, J. A. S. Bengal, xxiv. p. 227 ; 

 Blyth, B. Burm. p. 127 ; Hume and Dai'., Str. F. 1878, p. 45 ; Hume, 

 Sir. F. 1879, p. 84 (pt.). The SIBERIAN HOUSE MARTIN. 



Forehead, crown, nape, back, scapulars and lesser wing coverts glossy steel 

 black ; rump and upper tail coverts white, washed with smoky brown and 

 dark shafted ; tail, wings and greater coverts brown ; lores, feathers under the 

 eye and above the ear coverts dull black ; cheeks, lower ear coverts and all 

 the under surface white, the throat tinged with reddish buff ; the sides and 

 flanks pale smoky brown ; under wing coverts and axillaries dark smoky 

 brown; the outermost small coverts tipped with white. 



Length. 4-6 to 4 '8 inches ; wing 4*5 ; tail 2-05 to 2-3 ; tarsus 0-45 ; 

 culmen 0*3. 



Hob. Siberia, from the valley of the Yen-e-say eastwards, breeding through- 

 out S.-E. Siberia and Northern China, occurring also in Turkestan. It pro- 

 bably winters in the Burmese countries and Southern China. 



