268 MR. F. W. STYAN ON CERVULUS CRINIFRONS. _[ May 4, 
forehead, and slender build of the former, and the yellow head and 
black slits along the face of the latter. It is, however, much larger 
than either, and apparently longer in the legs, compared with the size 
of body. Its fur is of a similar hard texture to that of Hlaphodus 
michianus, but the colour is much richer and more glossy. The 
skull is attached to the skin, but I have not taken it out to examine. 
This species appears to be very rare; ever since the description of it 
first appeared, the man I employed to hunt has been specially 
looking for it, but has only procured this single specimen. When I 
first gave him a description of it he was quite incredulous, and 
said no such animal was known, nor would he believe in it until he 
actually came across this one. 
‘Last summer he procured for me two young of the Hlaphodus, 
which I am not aware have been described before. They are 
apparently not more than two or three weeks old, but are almost 
exact miniatures of the adult, similar in colour, with a very 
pronounced frontal tuft, but no pale eyebrow, ears marked with 
white as in adult. On each side of the back is a row of not very 
distinctly marked white spots, and outside that again just the faintest 
suspicion of another row. 
‘*T have also to record an interesting addition to the avifauna of 
China in the shape of Hirundo savignyi. Two birds, which I 
believe to be of this species, were killed at Pekin last October, one 
of which is now in the Shanghai Museum. David records having 
seen Swallows with reddish-yellow underparts in Upper Mongolia, 
which doubtless were of the same species, but no record of its 
occurrence in China exists. Both are males, one an immature bird, 
and measure respectively 73 and 7 inches—the tail in the former being 
4 inches, in the latter 34, not fully developed. In the adult the 
forehead and throat are deep chestnut, the lower parts uniform rich 
chestnut-buff; the nuchal collar is broad and complete, but a little 
mixed with chestnut. In the younger bird the colour of the forehead 
and throat is similar to that of the lower parts in the adult, while 
its lower parts are again paler, a bright buff, and the nuchal collar 
is broken in the centre. 
“ Whether H. savignyi is now admitted as a distinct species or is 
regarded as only a variety of H. rustica I do not know; but if the 
latter, its range is remarkably wide, and it is.strange to find it where 
the parent form is unknown and replaced by a distinct species, 
H. gutturalis. 
“T am, Si, 
* Yours faithfully, 
«F, W. Sryan, F.Z.S. 
“ P.S.—A friend tells me that when in Pekin in 1883 he saw 
Swallows with uniform brick-red underparts, but did not obtain 
specimens. It is probable the species is not uncommon there.” 
The following papers were read :— 
