HIRUNDO. 263 



Adult male described by Mr. Sharpe is from Irkutsh. The general colour 

 above is glossy purplish blue, the mantle and scapulars streaked with reddish 

 white, where the bases of the feathers show through ; remainder of the plumage 

 as in H. rustica, but with the under parts very dark ferruginous, nearly as dark 

 as the throat ; the collar across the throat is very narrow and indistinct. 



Length 6-9 to 7-3 inches ; wing 5-05 ; tail O'4 ; tarsus 0-5. 



Hal. E. Siberia and Kamtschatka, wintering in Burmah, where Oates says 

 it occurs in considerable numbers, but it is much more common in some years 

 than in others. Captain Wardlaw-Ramsay remarks that it is common in 

 Karenne. Dr. Tirand that it is not rare in Cochin-China, and Mr. Simson, who 

 first drew Dr. Jerdon's attention to the species, writes that it visits Dacca 

 in an erratic manner, sometimes abundantly, sometimes in small numbers. 

 Colonel God win -Austen met with it in the Khasia hills, and it has been pro- 

 cured also at Darjeeling. In the British Museum Catalogue is a record 

 from Tenasserim, Heifer being quoted. 



776. HirundO Javaniea, Sparrm., Mus. Carls, ii. pi. IOO; 

 Vieill., N. Diet. a" Hist. Nat. xiv. p. 523; Temm., PL Col. iv. pi. 83; Gray, 

 Gen. B. i. p. 57 ; Temm. and Schleg., Faun. Jap. Aves, p. 32 ; Cab., Mus. 

 JJein. Th. i. p. 46; Wall, Ibis, 1860, p. 147 ; Salvad., Ucc. Born. p. 126; 

 Bourd., Sir. F. 1876, p. 374; Fairb., Str. F. 1877, p. 392 ; Sharpe, Journ. 

 Lin. Soc. ZooL xiii. p. 498 ; Hume and Dav., Str. F. 1878, p. 43 ; Ramsay, 

 Proc. Lin. Soc. N. S. Wales iii. p. 275 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, pp. 47, 84 ; 

 Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 597 ; Hume, Sir. F. 1880, p. I2O; Davison, Str t F. 

 1883, p. 345 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. x. p. 142. Hirundo frontalis, Quoy et 

 Gaim., Voy. del Astrol. ZooL i. p. 204, pi- 12, fig. I. Hirundo domicola, 

 .Jerd., Madr. Journ. xiii. p. 173; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 198; 

 Kelaart, Prod. Cat. p. 118; Layard, Ann. and Mag. N. Hist. xii. p. 170; 

 Jerd., B. Ind. i p. 158 ; Eoldsw., P. Z. S. 1872, p. 418 ; Jerd., Ibis, 1871, 

 p. 351. Hypurolepis domicola, Gould, B. Asia i. pi. 32 ; Hume, Nests and 

 Eggs, Ind. B.\>. 73; id., Str. F. 1874, p. 155. Hypurolepis Javanica, Oates, 

 B. Br. Burm. i. p. 308. The NEILGHERRY or TROPICAL HOUSE SWALLOW. 



Above glossy black or dull steel-blue, the white bases of the feathers of the 

 hind neck showing through ; a broad band on the forehead ; the chin, throat, 

 upper breast, cheeks, and ear coverts deep ferruginous ; lores dusky ; wings and 

 tail dark brown, slightly glossed with steel-blue ; the tail with an oval white 

 spot on all the tail feathers, except those of the central pair ; under surface 

 of the body pale ashy, albescent on the abdomen; breast with dusky shaft 

 streaks ; sides of the upper breast with a bluish patch ; sides of the body and 

 flanks dull smoky brown; under tail coverts ashy, the feathers with white 

 tips and subterminal patches of black. 



Length. 5 inches; wing 4'2; tail 2*1 ; depth of fork O'3 ; tarsus 0*4; 

 bill from gape o'65. 



