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MESSRS. ROBINSON AND KLOSS ON 



f Tail -sliort 

 iTail long 



HIRUNDIDAE. 

 SWAl.LOWS. 



rt and little fovkefl ; bill broader 

 : and nincli forked ; bill narrower . . 



<j f Rump not ehestmit 

 " (Ennip chestnut 



., ( Under parts chestnut 

 tender parts not chestnut 



, (Larger, wing more than 4.7.'5 inches 

 I Smaller, wing less than 4.75 inches 



( Under parts chestnut, finely streaked witli 



black 

 Under j)arts white, coarselv streaked with 

 [ black .. ' .. 



Uinotdo j. jaranicn. 



II. ntalicn ti/llcri. 



Ji. r. nistica.' 

 H. r7istica tjutturalis.* 



II. ha, Ha. 

 H. daurica ?n"/)n/^)i«.v. 



309. Hirundo javanica Spanm. 



ITirnndn jaranica, Sparrm, Mus. Carls, iv, 1789, pi. 100 (J;vva). 



A., p, 43 (Mergui) ; B., p. 10 (Junk Seylon) ; F., p. 50 (Lang- 



kawi) ; J., p. 16B (Koh Muk, Tvang) ; Hume, Strty Feathers, ix, 



1880, p. 120 (Kasoom). 

 Jlypuroleins javrniica, C. ii, p. 308 (Mergui) ; Williamson, Journ. 



'N'at. Hist. Soc. Siam, iii, 1918, p. 23 (Inner Gulf of Siam). 



Common everywhere in open country and on the coast : a 

 i-esident breeding bird. Williams Dn has a male taken at Koh Lak 

 on the 29th December 1921. 



Hirundo rustica rustica Linn. 



Hirundo rustica, Linn, Syst. Nat. i, 1766, p, 343 (Sweden vide 



Hartert, Yog. Pal. Faun. i. 1910, p. 8r)0). 

 Hirundo rustica rustica, Oberholser, Bulletin 98, U. S. IST. M., 1917, 



p. 30 (Wintering southwards to the southern Malay Peninsula), 



We have never seen an undoubted local example of this west- 

 ern race of the common swallow. It differs from the next in larger 

 size, wing 120-180 mm. 



310. Rirando rustica gutturalis Scop. 



Hirundo guttiiralis, Scopoli, Del. Flor. et Faun Insubr., pt. 2, 1786. 

 p. 9 ) (Philippine Ids) ; A., p. 41 (Tavoy to Malewoon) ; E., 

 p. 95 (Patani). 



* When the tail of this species is not fully developed the pale 

 undersurface will distinguish it from H. javanica, in which the lower breast 

 and bellv are dull brown. 



A. Huine & Davison. Stray Featliers, vi, 1878 



B. Miillor, ]Jie Ornis doi- Inscl SaliiiiKa, 188-2 



c. 



D. 



(). Grant. Fasciculi Malayenses, iii (Birds), 190"> 

 Bobinson ami Kloss, Tjis. 1910-11. 



.Miillor, JJieOrnis Uor inscl tsalaiiKa, jfSH'.^. ■-■ uoninsoii aim iviuss, lui?*. i^iu-ii. 



Oate^, Birds Bi-Jt. Burinah. Vols, i \- ii. 1883. G. (iairdner, Journ. N. H. Soc. Siam, i, IQl.'i 



Houhote. P. Z.S. 1901, Vol. i. 



liol)inson, Journ. V. M. S. Mtiseums, v, 191"). 



.JOURN. NAT. HIST. SOC. SIAM. 



