HIRUNDO TYTLERI (Z..^.). 



TYTLEE'S CHIMNEY-SWALLOW. 



Sirimdo rtistlcu, var. rufa (nee Gm.), Middend. Sibir. Eeis. p. 188 (1851). 



Sirundo riifa (nee Gm.), Kittl. Denkw. ii. p. 19G (1858). 



Sirundo rustlca (nee L.), Eadde, Eeis. Sibir. p. 278 (1863). 



Eirundo tijtleri, Jerd. B. Ind. iii. App. p. 870 (18G4) ; Blyth, Ibis, IS6G. p. 330 ; 



Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 68, no. 790 (1869) ; Hume, Str. F. iii. p. 11 (1875) ; Wald. 



in Blyth's B. Bui-m. p. 127 (1875) ; Wardlaw Eamsav, Ibis, 1877, p. 466 ; Hume 



& Davison, Str. E. 1878, p. 41 ; Hume, Str. E. 1879, p. 81 ; Simson, Ibis, 1882, 



p. 81; Godwin-Aust. t. e. p. 315; Gates, B. Brit. Burm. i. p. 304 (1883); 



Seebobm, Hist. Brit. B. iii. p. 171 (1883) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. x. p. 110 



(1885); Hume, Str. E. xi. p. 26 (1888); Gates, Eaun. Brit. Ind,, Birds, ii. p. 278 



(1890). 

 Sirundo gutturcdis (nee Scop.), Tacz. Bull. Soc. Zool. Erauce, p. 385 (1882) ; 



Dybowski, op. eit. p. 351 (1883). 

 Chelidon eryihroyaster (nee Bodd.), Stejn. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. vi. p. 72 (1883). 

 Einmdo americana, Blakist. Ibis, 1876, p. 331 ; id. & Pryer, Tr. As. Soc. Japan, 



viii. p. 211 (1880). 

 Einmdo o-ythrogastra (nee Bodd.), Blakist. & Pryer, Tr. As. Soc. Japan, x. p. 139 



(1882) ; Blakist. Amended List B. Japan, p. 47 (1884). 

 Eirundo satumtu, Eidgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1883, p. 95 (ex Stcjneger, MSS.). 

 Eirundo rusiica saturala, Dybowsk. & Tacz. Bull. Soc. Zool. Erauce. ix. pp. 116, 152 



Eitmiulo haicalcnsis, Dybowsk. & Tacz. t. c. p. 151 (1881). 



Eirundo rusticahaiccdcnsis, Dybowsk. & Tacz. t. c. p. 152 (ISSl). 



Chelidon tytlerl, Stejueger, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 29, pp. 269, 330, 346, 351. 



352 (1885) ; id. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. p. 113 (1887). 

 Eirundo savignli (ncc Aud.), Styau, P. Z. S. 1886, p. 268. 

 Eirundo rusiica lylleri, Tacz. Mem. Acad. Imp. Sei. St. Pctcrsb. (7) xxxix. p. 180 



(1891). 



//. similis //. ijiitliirali ct tnr(|uc pcctonili intcrnipt;'i, sod gastra^o vinacoo-castanco clistinguoiula. 



Uab. ill Karatscliatku ct in Silrcria oricntali, in terra Assainica, ct in re-ionc Lulo-C'Iiincnsi Inbcrnan^. 

 In America nici'idionali iju()(|nc, ut vidclur, rariiis liilicruaus. 



Adult male: General colour above ^dossy purplish blue, tlic nianllc and scapulars streaked with reddish 

 white where the bases o£ the leathers show through ; lesser aud median wing-eovcrts like the 



