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A Macassar example of a male Cisticola, kindly lent to me by Mr. Wallace, I am 
unable to distinguish from Assamese and Daccan individuals of C. cursitans. It is 
labelled C. lineocapilla, Gould, with the note, “tail rather more distinctly marked.” 
Wing 1%, tail 143. The range of this tiny species is very extensive. 
MOTACILLID#. 
Bupytes, Cuvier. 
75. Bupyres vrripis (Gm.), Syst. Nat. ed. 13, i. p. 962 (1788), “Ceylon,” ex Brown, 
pl. 33. 
Hab. Menado (mus. nostr.). 
One example, in winter plumage. Olive-green above. Upper part of breast sulphur- 
yellow; rest of under surface pure white, some of the ventral and under tail-coverts 
dashed with sulphur-yellow. Supercilium conspicuous, broad, and pure white. Agrees 
perfectly with examples from continental India. 
Motacilla flavescens, Stephens, Gen. Zool. Aves, x. p. 559, is enumerated in the 
‘Hand-list’ by Mr. G. R. Gray as a distinct species, with the habitats of the Moluccas, 
Celebes, Timor, and Java assigned. Stephens gave this title to Buffon’s “ Bergeronnette 
de Vile de Timor,” Hist. Nat. v. p.275. Buffon’s bird belongs to that phase of plumage 
of B. viridis (Gm.) in which the superciliary stripe is yellow, the upper plumage ash- 
coloured, and the under yellow. 
HIRUNDINID#. 
Hirvunpo, Linneus. 
76. HirnunDO GUTTURALIS, Scopoli, Del. Fl. Faun. Insubr. ii. p. 96. no. 115, ex Sonn. 
(1786). 
LI’? Hirondelle d’ Antigue, Sonn. Voy. Nouy. Guin. p. 118, pl. 78. 
Hirundo panayana, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 1018, ex Sonn. (1788). 
Hab. Menado (mus. nostr.) ; Indian region. 
Celebean examples agree with specimens from India, Japan, China, Java, Malacca, 
and Morty Island. In one the crown is ashy brown, the forehead albescent. The 
black pectoral band is present, and the chin and throat are dirty rufous; on the outer 
tail-feathers the white mark is in the form of a diagonal oval drop. An example of an 
adult bird has the head steel-blue; forehead, chin, and throat deep rufous, as in the 
European H. rustica, the rufous breast being bounded by the usual black pectoral 
band. Wing 44 inches. 
Whether this and the other races of Chimney-Swallows which inhabit the Malay 
archipelago and Eastern Asia are or are not of the same species as the European bird, 
they undoubtedly belong to Sonnerat’s Hirondelle d Antique. 
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