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Genus HIRUNDO. 

 241. HiEUNDO HUSTICA. 



Hirundo rustica, L. ; Hume & Henders. Lahore to Yark. p. 176 (1873); Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 188; 

 Blanf. East. Persia, ii. p. 215 (1876) ; Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 131 (1876) ; Wardlaw Eamsay, Ibis, 

 1880, p. 48; Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 47; Scully, ibid. p. 427; C. Swinh. Ibis, 1882, p. 100; Homeyer 

 & Tancre, MT. orn. Ver. Wien, 1883, p. 83 ; Severtz. Ibis, 1883, p. 70 ; Zarudn. Ois. Transcasp. 

 p. 32 (1885) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. x. p. 128 (1885) ; Scully, J. A. S. Beng. Ivi. p. 83 (1887) ; 

 Radde, Ornis, iii. p. 487 (1887) ; Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. (2) Zool. v. p. 77 (1889) ; Gates, Faun. 

 Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 277 (1890). 



Hirundo domestica, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. Q7 (1873). 



No. 149. Urumbu, July 24, 1873. 



No. 1602. Sarikol, May 9, 1874. 



Nos. 1732, 1733, 1734, 1762. Yarkand, May 15-20, 1874. 



^ On the 8th. of May Dr. Stoliczka noticed the Common Swallow as very common about 

 Sarikol. At Yarkand it was breeding, and the diary contains the following note :—'' S, rustica 

 makes here a nest of mud, lined with fine grass, horse-hair, and a few feathers, just as it does 

 at home. It does not appear to begin to lay -before the 10th of May, as all the eggs I got 

 were nearly fresh. There were four to five eggs in the nest." 



Dr. Henderson says that the Common Swallow was ''found in great abundance in 

 Kashmir in June, where it was breeding, and in the plains of Yarkand it was common all 

 the way from Sanju to the city. At Oi-tograk, in August, they were collecting in flocks, and 

 perching in vast numbers on the mulberry-trees, probably preparatory to migration, because 

 on the return of the Expedition to the same locality in September not one was to be seen." 

 Dr. Scully observes :—" The Common Swallow is found in great numbers in the plains of 

 Eastern Turkestan, from Sanju to Kashghar, for six months in the year. The birds arrive 

 about the middle of April, and migrate towards the end of October, not a single bird of this 

 species being ever seen in winter. They breed during May and June ; many young birds, 

 just able to fly, being found in the early part of July. The Yarkandis call the bird ' m 

 Karloghach'— 'House Swsllow; and say that it always makes a mud nest on the roof of 

 houses, the number of eggs laid being from three to five, and that two broods are raised in 

 the season. Unlike the Swift, this species was frequently seen perching on trees, and settling 

 on the ground and on sand banks." 



242. HmuNDO nipalensis. 



Hirundo nipalensis, Hodgs. ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. x. p. 160 (1885) ; Gates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, 

 ii. p. 282 (1890) • Sharpe & Wyatt, Monogr. Hirund. part xiv. (1890). 

 No. 74. Murree, July 1, 1873. 



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