PHEDINA BORBONICA (Gm.). 



BOURBON STRIPED SWALLOW. 



La Grande Illrondelle hriinc a ventre tachete, oil V Kirondelle des Bles, IMontb. 



Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 09i (1779). 

 Hirondelle de Visle de Bourbon, Daubent. PI. Enl. vii. pi. 5i4. 

 Wheat Swalloic, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 2, p. 581 (1783). 

 mrundo borbonica, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 1017 (1788) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 58 (181(5) ; 



Schl. & Pollen, Hist. Nat. Madag., Ois. p. 68 (1868, pt.) ; Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 71, 



no. 834 (1869). 

 Cotyle borbonica, Bp. Consp. i. p. 312 (1850). 

 Fhedina borbonica, Bp. C. Pt. sli. p. 977 (185-1) ; id. Eivist. Coutemp. Torino, 1857, 



p. 4 ; E. Newton, Ibis, 18G1. p. 271 ; Maill. Notes Rrunion, p. 13 (1863) ; E. 



Newton, Ibis, 1862, p. 270, note; id. Ibis, 1863, p. 310, note; Coquercl, Alli. 



Ileuniou, 1865, pp. 19, 20, fig. 2; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 295 ; id. Cat. Afr. B. 



p. 45 (1871); A. & E. Newt. Ibis, 1876, p. 284; Hartl. Yog. Madag. p. (13 



(1877); Sharpe, Cat. Birds in Brit. Mus. x. p. 122 (1885); E. Newton, Trans. 



Norfolk Nat. Soc. iv. p. 549 (1888). 



P. saturate bruimca, anguste iiigro striolata : alls caudrique nigricantibus coiicoloribus : loris et facie 

 lateiali saturate brunneis : suljtus brunnea, latius nigro striolata, gutture, abdomine inio et sul>- 

 caudalibus albicaiitioribus. 



Hah. in iiisulis Mascarenis, '^Mauritius ■" et ' Reunion ' dictis. 



Adult. Above dark greyish bronn, the centres of the feathers marked down the sliaft ivitii ;i iiarrciw 

 streak of Ijluck, vei-j- distinct on the rump; wing-coverts dark bhtckish brown: quills lilack 

 above, greyisli underneath ; tail blackish brown above, dark brown beneath, ])aler on tlie inner 

 webj lores black ; cheeks, sides of the neck, and breast greyish brown, with darker sliaft-stri))es ; 

 rest of the under surface of the body white, longitudinally striped with dark brown, tiic u|i|ht 

 part of the breast and flanks somewhat greyish: "bill and feet black: iris brown'" Pollen). 

 Total length u'4 inches, wing 4G5, tail 2. 



Hull, ^lauritias and La Rcuni 



on. 



Fi:OM the notes wbieli ;ire given beluw it will be seen Ibat Ibis Swallow is in il;ni-i'r of 

 iK'CDming extinct, and there cannot be the slightest dould tint it exists now in iiiinlully 

 diminished numbers in places where it Avas common one liundicil ycins au'". 



Writing of the species in 177!', ]\lontbcillard gave the follow ing n.dc on its habits in 



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