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A. E. Brelim, Verz. Samml. C. L. Erelim, p. 3 

 (1SG6, teste Dresser). 



Chelidon tectoriim, C. L. Brehm, Naum. 1855, p. 271. 



Chelidon iirhlcn vulgaris, 



Chelidon tirbica latirostris, 



Chelidon urbica fenestrctrnm, 



Chelidon iirhica tectorum, 



Chelidon urbica rupestris, 



Chelidon urbica septentrionalis,^ 



Chelidon cashmiriei/sis (nee Gould), Gigl. Avif. Ital. p. 187 (1886) ; id. & Manzella, 



Icon. Avif. Ital. fasc. xliii. (1888) ; Gigl. Avif. Ital. i. Eesoc. p. 316 (1889). 

 Chelidonaria urbica, Heichen. J. f. O. 1889, p. 187 ; id. Syst. Uebers. Vog. Deutsclil. 



p. 25 (1889) ; Hartert, Kat. Vogelsamml. Senckenb. Mus. p. 98 (1891). 



C subcaudalibus albis : rectricibus immaculatis : supracaudalibus longioribus nigris, reliquis albis : 

 mento albo, gastraeo concolore, nee fnmoso : cauda valde furcata. 



Hab. in regione Palsearetica oceidentali, usque ad Asiam centralem, in Africa et in peninsula Indica 

 hibernans. 



Adult male in breedinrj-plumage. General colour above deep purplish blue, with slight indications of the 

 white bases of the feathers showing on the hind neck and mantle ; wing-coverts blackish, the 

 lesser series slightly glossed with purple, the median and greater coverts with a very faint steely 

 gloss ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills also blackish, slightly glossed with steely green ; 

 lower back and rump pure white, sometimes with narrow shaft-lines of dusky ; upper tail-coverts 

 blue like the back ; tail-feathers blackish brown, with a slight steel-blue gloss on the centre ones ; 

 crown of head like the back ; lores and feathers round the eye black, as well as the ear-coverts ; 

 cheeks and lower ear-coverts as well as the entire under surface of the body pure wliitc ; sides 

 of body and flanks washed with very pale smoky brown ; thighs white ; under tail-coverts white, 

 sometimes with a sliglit wash of dingy brown, the shaft-stripes dusky and tolerably distinct, these 

 streaks, however, often absent; under wing-coverts and axillaries smoky brown, the outer wing- 

 coverts mottled with dusky bases to the feathers ; quills dusky brown below, a little paler on the 

 inner edge: bill black; feet black; iris dark brown. Total length 5-5 inches, cuhncn 0-35, 

 wing -1"52, tail 2-5, tarsus ()• i;"). 



Adult fciiiak'. Similar to the male iu colour. Total length 5 inches, culmen Ooo, wing I'o, tail 2-5, 

 tarsus 0' t."). 



Younff. Distinguished from tlic adults at a glance by the yellow gajie and white IVinges to the ends ol 

 the secondaries. The colour of the upper surface is much dnllti-, being often of a dingy l)rown 

 with a gloss of imrplish or greenish steel-l)lue; th(' throat is pale smoky lirown, well dclinrd (in 

 the fore neck, and contrasting with the rest of the under surface, which is pure white. Hciore 

 leaving England, the plumage becomes worn and dingy brown, but the new feathers are visible 

 in examples killed late in Octolier. 



Sometimes the young have a pretty tinge of rnl'ous isabelline on the thmat and fore neck, and 

 this same colour is often visible ou the adults in breeding-plumage, pervading also tlic runqi. 



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