HIRUNDO BADIA (Cass.). 



MALAYAN CHESTNUT MOSQUE-SWALLOW. 



Cecrojns badiq, Cass. Proc. Pbilad. Acad. 1853, p. 371 ; id. Cat. Hirund. Mus. Philad. 



Acad. p. 4 (1853). 

 Hirundo badia, Gray, IIand-1. B. i. p. 69, no. SOI (1869) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds in Brit. 



Mus. s. p. 166 (1885). 

 Cecropis archetes, Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 266. 

 Hirundo archetes, Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 17 ; Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 592 (1879). 



H. uropygio rufo : capite clorso concolore : subtus castanea. 



Hub. in peninsula Malayensi. 



Adult. General colour above glossy steel-blue; hind neck and mantle slightly streaked with reddish on 

 disturbing the feathers ; lesser and median wing-coverts like the back ; greater coverts, bastard- 

 wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish, externally washed with steel-blue; rump and upper 

 tail-coverts deep chestnut, the long upper tail-coverts steel-blue; tail-feathers black glossed with 

 steel-blue ; crown of head like the back ; lores dusky ; a narrow line of red commencing at the 

 base of the forehead and extending over the eye, forming a narrow and scarcely perceptible eye- 

 brow ; sides of hinder crown, ear- coverts, cheeks, and under surface of body deep chestnut, with 

 indistinct blackish streaks, very tiny on the ear-coverts and throat, but a little larger on the 

 breast, abdomen, and flanks ; a patch of steel-blue feathers on the sides of the upper breast ; 

 thighs and under tail-coverts chestnut, the long ones of the latter with steel-blue ends, the longest 

 entirely steel-blue ; under wing-coverts and axillaries chestnut, the latter slightly mottled with 

 dusky bases and narrow blackish shaft-lines; quills below dusky brown: "bill black, fleshy 

 white at gape; legs and feet black or purplish black ; claws black; iris deep brown " (IV. Davi- 

 son). Total length 6 inches, culmen 0'4, wing 4 - 95, tail 2 - 7, tarsus 06. 



The following are the measurements of the series in the British Museum : — 



Total length. Wing. Tail, 



in. in. in. 



a-c. cJ ad. Kuroo 7-4-7-8 4-8-5-3 36-3-9 



d. ? ad. „ 7-2 5-1 35 



e. $ ad. Selangore 7'2 5 - 25 3'8 



/-/. ? ad. „ . , 6-8-7-2 5'0-5-2 3-5-3-9 



rn. $ juv. Kossoum 6'2 5'05 3'1 



n, o. $ ad. Poongyah 7'5-7 - 7 5'2 3'8 



p. ? ad. „ 7 - 5-1 35 



q,r. <$ ad. Girbu 6 - (moulting) 5-l-5 - 2 (moulting). 



The adult female is similar in colour to the male. 



