262 HIRUNDINID^E. 



Rajkote (Kattiawar), Central India (Mhow and Kamptee), the Deccan, 

 South India, Assam, Bhootan, Bhamo, Pegu and Tenasserim. 



774. Hirundo erythrogastra, Bodd., Tall. Pi Enl p. 45 ; 



Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. x. p. 137. Hirundo rufa, Gm. y Syst. Nat. i. 

 p. 1018; Bp ., Consp- Av.i. p. 339; Cab., Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 46. Hirundo 

 horreorum, Barlr., Fragm.Nat. Hist. p. 17 ; Wald. in Bl, B. Hurm.p. 127 ; 

 Hume and Dav., Sir. F. vi. p. 42 ; id., viii. p. 84 ; Oates, B. Br. Burm \. 

 p. 303. Hirundo erythrogastra, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 57. Hirundo rustica, 

 var. horreorum, Seebchm, Hist. Br. B. ii. p. 171. The AMERICAN BARN 

 SWALLOW. 



General colour above glossy purplish blue, varied with white on the mantle 

 and back, where the white bases to the feathers show through ; lesser and 

 median wing coverts like the back ; greater coverts, bastard wing, primary 

 coverts and quills blackish with a purplish gloss on the outer web, inclining 

 more to steel-green on the outer webs of the bastard wing and primary 

 coverts ; the innermost greater coverts ashy on their inner webs with a 

 strong rufous tinge ; tail feathers blackish with a steel-green gloss, all but 

 the centre ones with a large rounded spot, increasing in size towards the 

 outermost, where it is a large oblique mark ; forehead deep bay or chestnut, 

 extending slightly blackwards over the eye ; lores black ; ear coverts purplish 

 blue like the head ; cheeks and entire throat deep bay, of a different 

 colour from the rest of the under surface, but not separated from the chest by 

 a complete band ; sides of the neck glossy purplish blue like the back, this 

 colour impinging on to the sides of the foreneck in a half crescent shape 

 but not forming a band across ; under surface from the chest downwards, 

 including the under wing coverts and axillaries, clear rufous deepening into 

 chestnut in the region of the vent ; under tail coverts with blackish shaft lines. 

 (Sharpe.) The adult female is similar to the male in colour. 



Length. 67 to 6-8 inches ; wing 4-5 to 4-55 ; tail 3-25 to 3-45 ; tarsus O'4 ; 

 culmen 0*35. 



Hab. The whole of North America, reaching to Alaska and Greenland, 

 extending across to Lake Baikal and wintering in Burmah ; also ranging 

 through the whole of Central America and the Antilles, reaching in winter as 

 far as Southern Brazil. (Sharpe.) Pegu and Tonghoo are given as localities 

 of the occurrence of this species. 



775. Hirundo Tytleri, Jerd., B. ind. iii. App. p. 870 (1864); 



Blyth,Ibis, 1866, p. 336; Hume, Sir. F. 1875, p. 4^.; Wald. in BlytJis 

 B. Burm. p. 127; War dlaw- Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 466; Hume and Dav., 

 Sir. F. 1878, p. 41 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 84 ; Simson, Ibis, 1882, p. 84 ; 

 Godwin- Austen, t. c.p. 345 ; Oates, B. Br. Burm. i. p. 304; Seebohm, Hist. 

 Br. B. ii. p. 171. TYTLER'S SWALLOW. 



