A young male from Kossoum is much duller and more purplish black above, and Las rufous 

 tips to the upper tail-coverts and inner secondaries ; underneath the rufous is not of so deep a 

 chestnut as in the adult, and the chest and sides of the breast are mottled with dusky black 

 spots. 



Hub. Malayan Peninsula. 



This beautiful Swallow takes the place in the Malayan Peninsula of Hirando hyperythra 

 of Ceylon, to which it is very closely allied. It is, however, a much larger and finer 

 bird, and has scarcely any indication of black streaks on the under surface. 



The present species appears to be confined to the Malayan Peninsula, the first 

 example having been described by Cassin from a Malaccan specimen in the Philadelphia 

 Museum. A specimen in the Tweeddale collection, and another in the British Museum, 

 were all the specimens recorded as existing in collections, until Mr. Davison procured 

 the types of Cecropis arclietes of Hume. 



The Hume collection contains a fine series of this Swallow, showing that its range 

 is pretty extensive. Prom Malacca itself specimens shot in March and July are repre- 

 sented, and four examples were obtained in October, 1875, by Mr. Davison in Kuroo, a 

 native State 26 miles distant from Malacca. Several specimens were procured by 

 Mr. Davison in Selangore in March and August, and it extends as high as the Tonka 

 district, for in the Hume collection are specimens collected by Mr. Darling at Kossoum 

 in May, Poongyah in August, and Girbu in September. 



No notes have been published on the habits of this species. 



The descriptions are taken from the series in the British Museum, but we have not 

 figured the species, as it so closely resembles the Ceylonese H. hyperythra. 



