HIRUNDO STRIOLATA, Temm. % Schi. 



JAVAN MOSQUE-SWALLOW. 



Cecropis striolata, Boie, Isis, 1844, p. 174 (ex Kuhl, MSS. : descr. nulla) ; Cass. Cat. 

 Hirund. Mus. Philad. Acad. p. 3 (1853); Swinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 346 ; Wa.ld. in 

 Blyth's B. Burm. p. 127 (1875) ; David & Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 127 (1877. pt.). 



Hirundo striolata, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 58 (1845) ; Temm. & Schl. Eaun. Jap. p. 33 

 (1850, descr. orig.); Bp. Consp. i. p. 340 (1850); Wall. P. Z. S. 1S63, p. 485 ; 

 Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 337 ; Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 69, no. 801 (1869) ; Hume & 

 Davison, Str. E. vi. p. 44 (1878) ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1883, p. 169 ; Vorderm. Nat. 

 Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. xlii. p. 210 (1883); Sharpe, Cat. Birds in Brit, Mus. x. 

 p. 161 (1885) ; Oates, Eaun. Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 281 (1890) ; Seebohm, Birds 

 Japan. Emp. p. 143 (1890) ; Steere, List B. Philippines, p. 16 (1890). 



Hirundo daurica (nee L.), Swinh. Ibis, 1860, p. 48, 1863, p. 255. 



Lillia striolata, Hume, Str. F. v. p. 261 (1877). 



Hirundo japonica (nee T. & S.), Oates, Handb. B. Brit. Burm. i. p. 305 (1S83). 



Hirundo striolata, |3. suhstriolata (nee Hume), Seebohm, Ibis, 1883, p. 169. 



H. major: similis H. daurica et statui'a fequali, sed subtus albescens, striis pectoralibus latioribus et 

 uropygio distinct! striatulato distinguenda. 



Hub. in China meridionali et in insula " Formosa " dicta : in terris Assamicis et Burmanicis usque ad 

 insulas Philippinas et ad eas "Java" et " Mores " dictas. 



Adult male (type of species). General colour above dark purplish blue, the back perceptibly streaked 

 with white where the white bases to the feathers show through ; lesser and median wing-coverts 

 like the back ; greater coverts, bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills black, washed with 

 purplish blue externally ; lower back and rump light chestnut-rufous, with narrow blackish 

 shaft-lines, not very distinct ; upper tail-coverts purplish blue with rufous bases ; tail-feathers 

 black washed with purplish blue ; head like the back, with a few streaks of rufous on the hind 

 neck ; no rufous on base of forehead ; loral plumes dusky with whitish bases, surrounded by a 

 narrow streak of rufous ; from behind the eye a triangular patch of dull chestnut, extending on 

 the sides of the neck, but not meeting behind the nape ; ear-coverts dingy fulvous, with blackish 

 shaft-streaks ; cheeks and under surface of body whitish, more silky white on the throat and 

 a little deeper buff on the sides of the body; all the under surface from the chin to the vent 

 streaked with distinct blackish centres to the feathers, broader on the throat and breast ; under 

 tail-coverts f ulvescent, with broad and conspicuous tips of blue-black ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries pale fulvescent, with narrow shaft-lines of black, the outer coverts more strongly 

 mottled with blackish central markings; quills dusky below, more ashy along the edge of the 

 inner web. Total length 70 inches, culmen 035, wing 5'05, tail 4, tarsus 06. 



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