Dr. A. Pt. AYallace procured specimens of this Swallow in AVest Java, and 

 Dr. Vorderman has recorded it from the Salak Mountains. At Batavia, aecordinii: 

 to the last-named naturalist, it breeds. He also records it as nesting in the Island ot 

 Billiton. 



Dr. Wallace met with the species in Sumatra during- his travels in the Malay 

 Archipelago, and more recently Mr. Buxton found it in South Lampong ; while Signor 

 Modigliani has procured specimens at Siboga in April and September, and at Balige in 

 October. He also found it in the Island of JS^ias. In the Philippines Mr. A. H. Everett 

 vas the first to meet with the species, viz. in the Island of Cebu, in April. He after- 

 wards procured it in South Leyte in September and October, and in Diuagat in 

 September and North Bohol in October. Dr. Platen also met with it in Mindanao. By 

 the Steere Expedition it was recorded from Negros, Samar, Mindoro, and Basilan. Mean- 

 while Mr. Lempriere had also collected a specimen at Marasi Bay in Southern Palawan : 

 it was subsequently noted at Puerto Princesa by Mr. Everett and Professor Steere, and 

 Mr. John Whitehead remarks that it was " fairly common " near Taguso. Dr. Guilleinard 

 met with the species in the Island of Cagayan Sulu, " flying about the vicinity 

 of the crater-lakes in the month of April." He also found it in the Sula Islands. In 

 Labuan it breeds, and, according to Mr. John "Whitehead, it is common throughout 

 Northern Borneo. Dr. Wallace met with it in Sarawak, and Mr. A. H. Everett procured 

 some specimens at Sibu in October. It was also found at ^loera Teweh by Dr. Pischer 

 and by Mr. Motley at Banjarmassing. 



Dr. W^allace states that this Swallow is common in Celebes, and he also met with 

 it in the Sula Islands. Dr. Meyer has received it from Tabukan in the Sangi group. 

 It is widely spread throughout the Moluccas, having been found in Lombock and Timor 

 by Dr. Wallace and by Mr. Riedel in Timor Laut. Count Salvadori gives the following- 

 list of its locnlities in his ' Ornitologia della Papuasia ' : — Batchian, Morotai, Ternate 

 {Bernstein), Bouru {TT^aUace; Hoedl), Amboyna {Hoedt), Matabello {Rosenberg), 

 Ive Islands {Rosenherg), Aru Islands, Salawati [Rosenberg], Dovey {S. 3IiUler ; JFallacc), 

 Sorong (B'Albertis), Jobi (Rritijn). It has also been met with on the Island of 

 Waigiou by Dr. Platen, and it was procured at Dobbo in the Aru Islands during the 

 ' Challenger ' Expedition. In South-eastern New Guinea Signor D'Alliertis mrt w ith 1 he 

 species on Yule Island, Mr. Stone in the neighbourhood of Port Moresby, and Mr. Liuldic 

 on the Astrolabe Eange. It was likewise procured by the late John ^Maegillivray on 

 the Iledscar Islands olf the south-east coast of New Guinea; and the .Salvin-Godnian 

 collection contains three specimens said to have been obtained by .Mr. J. T. Cockcrcll in 

 the islands in Torres Straits. These islands arc indocd a vci-y ])rnl)aliK' haliital I'or lln- 

 species; but the locality requires some cdiillrnial ion, as .Mr. C'ockcrcll uoloriously mixed 

 up his collections from the Aru Islands and .NOrlhcni Auslralia. 



The most eastern habitat of the species seems tu be ?M'u lidand and llie Diike-nf- 

 York Island, where it was met with bv Dr. Hiibner and !Mr. L. C. Lavard, ihe laller of 

 whom found it brcedini!'. 



