Mr. De la Touche says that there are Swallows all the year round at Swatow, but 

 the majority leave in autumn. They quit the neighbourhood of PoochoAV about the 

 beginning of October, but he has once or twice noticed a stray bird in winter. 



Hirundo gutturalis is doubtless a winter visitor to every part of the Indo-Chinese 

 countries. Mr. Gates says that the species visits Burmah, the adult Ijirds chiefly in 

 winter, from September to April, but he has never seen any indication of its nesting 

 there. Most of the birds observed are immature, and may be seen pretty well all the 

 year through. Mr. Davison states that he found Swallows excessively abundant in 

 Tenasserim throughout the province, wherever there were clearings or open spaces. 

 Major C. T. Bingham has met with them in the Thoungyeen Valley from October to 

 February, when it is very common. Specimens from several parts of the Indian Penin- 

 sula are recorded by us above, and one of the most typical is the bird from Kathiawar. 



Mr. Hume's collection contains specimens of the true //. gutturalis from the 

 Malayan Peninsula as well as from the Andamans. We have seen examples from Perak 

 obtained by Mr. L. VTray, who says that Swallows were very plentiful on the simimits 

 of the hills. Captain Ivelham found them common throughout the Straits Settlements, 

 and says that bis specimens are identical with those he procured at Hongkong. 



In Java and Sumatra the present l)ird is a winter visitant, and, indeed, occurs 

 throughout the Malay Archipelago. Dr. Vorderman includes it among his bu-ds of 

 Batavia. Mr. Hartert records it from the Preanger Residency, and Sumatran examples 

 are in the British Museum. 



It visits apparently the whole of the Philippine Archipelago, and was recorded by 

 the naturalists who accompanied Professor Steere's expedition, from Luzon, Panay, 

 Guimaras, Mindanao, and Palawan. Mr. Alfred Everett has also obtained it in several 

 of the above-mentioned islands, and ]\Ir. John Whitehead at Taguso in Palawan. We 

 have seen several specimens from Labuan and other parts of Borneo. It has l^een 

 procured in Sarawak by Doria and Beccari, at Moera Teweh by Pischcr, and at Banjar- 

 massin by Motley. 



Dr. A. B. Meyer has met with this Swallow near Menado in Celebes in March, at Tello 

 in South Celebes in January, and in the Togian Islands in August. He often noticed 

 them resting on isolated branches of trees in the flooded rice-fields. Both Dr. Meyer 

 and Professor W. Blasius have recorded the species from Great Sanghir Island. Tlie 

 'Challenger' met with a fcAv individuals at sea on October 21st between the Moluccas 

 and the Philippines. 



Count Salvadori has given a list of the different places in the Moluccas wlu-rc this 

 Swallow has been found l)y Wallace, Bruijn, Beccari, and Guilleinard, as follows:— 

 Batchiau, Ualmahera or Gilolo, Tifore, Morotai, Amboina, Aru Islands, and Andai in 

 N.W. New Guinea. Mr. H. O. Forbes has also met with it in Bourou. In the J?rilish 

 Museum is a specimen collected by Mr. Cohen in the Pelew Islands. 



During the voyage of H. M.S. 'Herald,' a specimen of a youn- male SwaUow was 

 captured by Dr. llayner on the nortli coast of Australia, on (he l^th of October, 1S(K). 



