266 HIRUNDINID^E. 



1878, p. 44 ; Oates, B. Br. Burnt, i. p. 305. Lillia Japonica, Hume, Str. F. 

 1877, p. 261. Lillia substriolata, Hume, Str- F. 1877, p. 264 Cecropis 

 erythropygia (nee. Sykes), Blakist and Pryer B. Japan, p. 139. Hirundo 

 striolata, Seebohm, Ibis, 1883, p. 169. Hirundo Japonica, Sharpe, Cat. 

 B. Br. Mus. x. p. 162. The JAPANESE STRIPED SWALLOW. 



Adult. Forehead, crown, back, scapulars and lesser wing coverts glossy 

 steel black ; lores ashy ; a spot in front of the eye black ; a very narrow 

 supercilium and a broad patch behind and above the ear coverts chestnut ; 

 these patches narrowly andinterrtiptedly connected over the nape ; ear coverts, 

 cheeks and whole lower plumage white, tinged with rufous, and broadly 

 streaked everywhere with dark brown ; rump chestnut, the shafts of the 

 feathers conspicuously black ; upper tail coverts black ; under tail coverts 

 white at base, black at the end ; the black portion being about an inch long ; 

 greater wing coverts, wings and tail black with a bluish gloss ; under tail 

 coverts like the back ; rump band ri inch with distinct black shafts. 



Length. 7 to 7^4 inches ; wing 4-55 to 4*7 ; tail 4 ; tarsus 0-65. 



Rab. Japan and China, extending into the Burmese countries. Captain 

 Wardlaw-Ramsay obtained a specimen on the Karen hills, which the British 

 Museum is now in possession of. According to Blakiston arid Pryer, in the 

 Catalogue of the Birds of Japan, the species builds a long bottle-shaped 

 nest under the eaves of the buildings, and the eggs, six in number, are white. 



Sharpe observes that H. striolata (Boie), distinguished by much broader 

 rump stripes, is a larger race than H. Japonica, with a wing of 5'O5 5*1 

 inches. I have not included the species owing to its occurrence in Burmah 

 being doubtful, and the species being confounded by various authors with the 

 present one. 



780. Hirundo erythrcpygia, Sytos, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 83; 



Jerd., Madr. Journ. xi. p. 237 (1840); Blyth, Ibis, 1866, pp. 237, 337; 

 Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 69, No. 806 (1869) ; Brooks, Ibis, 1869, pp. 46, 47 ; 

 Blyth, Ibis, 1870, p. 161 ; Cock, and Marsh., Str. F. 1873, p. 350 ; Adam, t. c. 

 p. 370; Aitken, Str. F. 1875, p. 212; Hume, t. c. p. 318; Butler, /. c. 

 p. 451 ; Walden, Ibis, 1876, p. 338; Butler, Str. F. 1877, p. 226; Davidson 

 and Wenden, Str. F. 1878, vol. ii. p. 76; Murray, t. c. p. 113; Legge, B. 

 Ceylon, p. 594(1879); Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 84; Butler, Cat. B. Sind, 

 fc., p. 13 (1879) ; id., Cat. B. S. Bomb. Pres. p. 14 (1880) ; id., Sir. F. 

 (1880), p. 377 ; Wardlaw-Ramsay, Ibis, 1880, rj; 48 ; Vidal, Str. F. 1880, p. 43 

 Butler, t. c. p. 377; Reid, Str. F. 1881, p. 18 ; Davidson, Str. F. 1882, 

 p. 292 ; Davison, Str. F. 1883, p. 345; Seebohm, Ibis, 1883, p. 169. Hi- 

 rundo daurica (non Pall.) Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. At. Soc. p. 198 (1849, P*-) '> 

 Layard, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. xii. p. 170 (1873); id. and Kelaart, 

 Prodr. Cat., app. p. 58 (1853); Cass. Cat. Hirund, Mus. Philad. Acad. 

 P- 4 ( l8 53) ; Horsf. and Moore, Cat. B. E. 7. Co. Mus. i. p. 92 (1854, pt.) ; 

 Jerd. t B. India, i. p. 160 (1862, pt.) ; Boulger, P. Z, S. 1866, p. 568; 



