HIRUNDO DAURICA, Linn. 



DAUEIAN MOSQUE-SWALLOW. 





Hirundo daurica, Linn. Mantissa Plant. App. p. 528 (1771) ; 6m. S. N. i. p. 1024 



(1788) ; Lath. Incl. Orn. ii. p. 576 (1790) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 57 (1845) ; Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 338 (1850) ; Selys-Longch. Bull. Acad. B. Belg. xxii. pt. 2, p. 103 



(1855) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds in Brit. Mus. x. p. 159 (1885) ; Oates, Faun. Brit. 



Ind., Birds, ii. p. 282 (1890). 

 Hirundo alpestris, Pall. Beis. Buss. Beichs, ii. App. no. 19 (1771-76) ; id. Zoogr. 



Bosso-Asiat. i. p. 534, pi. 30 (1811) ; Blasius, Nachtr. Nauru. V6g\ Deutschl. 



xiii. p. 209, pi. 383. fig. 3 (1860) ; Badde, Beis. Sibir., Vog. p. 280 (1863) ; Pinsch, 



Verli. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xxix. p. 150 (1879) ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1883, p. 169 ; Honieycr 



& Tancre, MT. orn. Ver. Wien, 1883, p. 83. 

 Daurian Swallow, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 2, p. 570 (1783). 

 Cecropis daurica, Less. Conipl. Buff. viii. p. 498 (1837) ; Boie, Isis, 1844, p. 174 ; 



Dybowski, J. f. O. 1876, p. 192; David & Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 125 (1877, pt.). 

 Cecropis alp>estris, Boie, Isis, 1844, p. 174 ; Gould, B. Asia, i. pi. 28 (1860) ; 



Dybowski, J. f. O. 1868, p. 336, 1872, p. 352,1874, p. 334, 1875, p. 244; Taczan. 



Bull. Soc. Zool. Prance, i. p. 133 (1876); Prjev. in Eowley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 161 



(1877) ; David & Oust. Ois. Cbine, p. 125 (1878). 

 IAllia alpestris, Boie, J. f. O. 1858, p. 364. 

 Lillia intermedia, Hume, Str. F. v. p. 263 (1877). 

 Lillia snbstriolata, Hume, Str. F. v. p. 264 (1877). 

 Hirundo intermedia, Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 84 (1879). 

 Hirundo snbstriolata, Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 84 (1879). 



H. uropygio rufo : pileo dorso concolore : subtus pallide rufescens, distincte striolata. 

 Hah. in Siberia orientali, in terra Assaniica hibernans. 



Adult male. General colour above deep blue, the back much streaked with white when the feathers are 

 disturbed ; head like the back, and not separated by a nuchal collar from the mantle ; lesser and 

 median wing-coverts like the back, the greater coverts, bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills 

 blackish, externally glossed with blue ; lower back and rump cinnamon-rufous, with a few blackish 

 shaft-lines, very indistinct; upper tail-coverts dark blue; tail-feathers blackish, glossed slightly 

 with blue ; lores blackish, whiter at base, and surmounted by a narrow line of rufous, forming a 

 slight eyebrow, which expands into a broad neck-patch of ciunamon-rufous, behind the ear- 

 coverts, which are dingy whitish washed with rufous and distinctly streaked with black shaft- 

 streaks ; cheeks and throat also dingy whitish, with broader blackish shaft-streaks ; remainder of 



