CHELIDON LAGOPUS {Pali). 



PALLAS'S MARTIN. 



Hirundo lagopoda, Pall. Zoogr. Ross.-Asiat. i. p. 532 (1811) ; Sevei-tz. Turkest. 



Jevotn. p. 67 (1873) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 188 ; Seebohm, Brit. B. iii. ]). 179 



(1884) ; Stejn. Bull. U.S. Xat. Mus. no. 29, p. 323 (1885). 

 Rirando urbica (non L.), jMiddeud. Pteis. Sibir., Zool. p. 189 (1851) ; Sclirenk, Amur. 



Reise, p. 388 (1859) ; Radde, Reis. Sibir., Yog. p. 280 (1883). 

 CheUdon urbica (non L.), Tickell, J. A. S. Beog. xxiv. p. 227, footnote (1855) ; 



Blytb, B. Burni. p. 127 (1875) ; Hume & Davison, Str. F. 1878, p. 15 ; Hume, 



Str. P. 1879, p. 81 (pt.). 

 CheUdoa ichitelyi, S^YLnh. P. Z. S. 1862, p. 320 ; id. Ibis, 1871, p. 152, pi. vii. fig. 2 ; 



Dresser, B. Eur. iii. p. 498 (1875). 

 Chelklon lagopoda, Swinh. Ibis, 1863, p. 91 ; id. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 287 ; Gray, Hand-l. 



B. i. p. 71, no. 881 (1869) ; ST\-inh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 317 ; Tacz. J. f. O. 1872, 



p. 352, 1871, p. 331; Dybowski, J. f. O. 1876, p. 192; Tacz. Bull. Soc. France, i. 



p. 131 (1876); David & Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 130 (1877); Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, 



p. 17 ; Severtz. Ibis, 1883, p. 80 ; Gates, B. Brit. Burm. i. p. 311 (1883). 

 Chelidon lagopus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds in Brit. IMus. x. p. 93 (1885). 



C. subcaudalibus albis : supracaudalibus omnibus albis ui'opygio concoloribus. 

 Hah. in Asia orientali et centrali. 



Adult female. General colour above glossy blue-black, tbe hind neck and mantle varied witli white bases 

 to the feathers ; wing-coverts and quills blackish brown, the former slightly glossed with blue- 

 black on the margins ; rump and all the upper tail-coverts white, washed with smoky brown, witli 

 dusky shaft-lines ; tail-feathers blackish brown; lores black, as well as the feathers round the 

 eye ; cheeks and ear-coverts white, the upper margin of the latter blue-black ; under surface of 

 body white, the throat tinged with reddish buff; the sides of the body and flanks pale smoky 

 brown; thighs and plumes of leg wliite; under tail-coverts white, v.\t\i distinct shat't-lincs of 

 dusky brown ; under wing-coverts and axillaries dark smoky brown, the ontcruiost small coverts 

 tipped with white j quills dusky brown below, paler along the inner web. Total length i'G iuclies, 

 culmen 0"3, wing 4"1, tail 2'0."5, tarsus 0"-45. 



The type of C. whitehji, ':<\\\\\\\.,m .Mr. ScclKihm's collection, dill'ers I'roin the bird described 

 only in having the dusky shat't-liucs on the rump and upper and under tail-cuvrrts less distinct, 

 and in wanting the rut'esccut tinge on the throat. 



Hah. Siberia from the Ycn-c-s;iy v:)lliy eastwards, probably as far as Kamtschatka. Soulhwanls 

 throughout ^Mongolia and China to Turkestan and occasionally as far south as Burmah. 



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