HIRUNDO NIPALENSIS, Hodgs. 



HODGSON'S MOSQUE-SWALLOW. 



Hirundo nipalensis, Hodgs. Icon.ined. iu Brit. Mas., Passeres, pi. vi. fig. l(no. .329); 



id. J. A. S. Beng. v. p. 7S0 (1836); id. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 82 (3 814) ; Hume 



& Davison, Str. F. vi. p. 14 (1878) ; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 84 (1879) ; Scully, t. c. 



p. 233 ; Bingham, Str. F. ix. p. 148 (1880) ; Hume, t, c. p. 216 ; Oates, Handb. 



B. Br. Burm. i. p. 306 (1883) ; Sharpe, Cat, Birds in Brit. Mus. x. p. 160 (18S5) ; 



Hume, Str. F. xi. p. 27 (1888) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. (2) v. p. 576 



(1888) ; Oates, ed. Hume's Nests & Eggs Ind. B. ii. p. 195 (1890) ; id. Faun. Brit, 



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

 Hirundo daurica (nee L.), Gray, Cat. Fissir. Brit. Mus. p. 23 (1818) ; Blyth, Cat. 



B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 198 (1819) ; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. i. p. 92 



(1851, pt.) ; Swinli. Ibis, 1861, p. 328 ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 160 (1862, pt.) ; Swinh. 



Ibis, 1863, pp. 89, 255 ; id. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 287 ; id. Ibis, 1870, p. 90 ; Beavan, 



Ibis, 1865, p. 105 ; Tytler, Ibis, 1868, p. 196 ; Pelz. t. c. p. 307 ; Brooks, Ibis, 



1869, p. 16; Beavan, t. c. p. 401; Hume, Str. F. ii. p. 168 (1871). 

 Hirundo alpestris japonica, Temra. & Schl. Faun. Japon., Aves, p. 33, pi. 11 



(1850). 

 Hirundo japonica, Bp. Consp. i. p. 340 (1850) ; Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 69, no. 809 



(1869) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds in Brit. Mus. x. p. 162 (1885). 

 Cecropis japonica, Cass. Cat. Hirund. Philad. Mus. p. 4 (1853) ; Swinh. P. Z. S. 



1871, p. 436; id. Ibis, 1874, p. 316 ; Blakist. Amended List B. Japan, pp. 25, 48 



(1884) ; Tristr. Ibis, 1885, p. 194. 

 Hirundo erythropygia (nee Sykes), Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 69, no. 806 (1869, pt.) ; 



Cock & Marsh. Str. F. i. p. 350 (1873) ; Hume, Str. F. iii. p. 318 (1875) ; Godw.- 



Aust. J. A. S. Beng. xlv. pt. 2, p. 68 (1876); Cripps, Str. F. vii. p. 76 (1878) ; 



Bingham, Str. F. viii. p. 192 (1879). 

 Cecropis daurica (nee L.), Jerd. Ibis, 1871, p. 352; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1887- p. 599, 



1888, p. 462. 

 Cecropis arctivitta, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 346. 

 Lillia daurica (nee L.), Hume, Nests & Eggs Ind. B. p. 78 (1873). 

 Cecropis nipalensis, Hume, Str. F. iii. p. 42 (1875). 

 Hirundo {Cecropis) nipalensis, Brooks, Str. F. iii. p. 230 (1S75). 



