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A Macassar example of a male Cisticola, kindly lent to me by Mr. Wallace, I am 

 unable to distinguish from Assamese and Daccan individuals of C. cursitans. It is 

 labelled C. lineocapilla, Gould, with the note, " tail rather more distinctly marked." 

 Wing If, tail l-£f . The range of this tiny species is very extensive. 



MOTACILLID^l. 



Budttes, Cuvier. 



75. Budttes viridis (Gm.), Syst. Nat. ed. 13, i. p. 962 (1788), " Ceylon," ex Brown, 



pi. 33. 



Hdb. Menado (tows, nostr.). 



One example, in winter plumage. Olive-green above. Upper part of breast sulphur- 

 yellow ; rest of under surface pure white, some of the ventral and under tail-coverts 

 dashed with sulphur-yellow. Supercilium conspicuous, broad, and pure white. Agrees 

 perfectly with examples from continental India. 



Motatilla flavescens, Stephens, Gen. Zool. Aves, x. p. 559, is enumerated in the 

 'Hand-list' by Mr. G. K. Gray as a distinct species, with the habitats of the Moluccas, 

 Celebes, Timor, and Java assigned. Stephens gave this title to Buffon's " Bergeronnette 

 de l'ile de Timor," Hist. Nat. v. p. 275. Buffon's bird belongs to that phase of plumage 

 of B. viridis (Gm.) in which the superciliary stripe is yellow, the upper plumage ash- 

 coloured, and the under yellow. 



HIRUNDINID^E. 



Hikukdo, Linnaeus. 



76. Hieundo GtTTTUEALis, Scopoli, Del. Fl. Faun. Insubr. ii. p. 96. no. 115, ex Sonn. 



(1786). 



L'Hirondelle d'Antigue, Sonn. Voy. Nouv. Guin. p. 118, pi. 78. 

 Hirundo panayana, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 1018, ex Sonn. (1788). 



Hab. Menado (mus. nostr.) ; Indian region. 



Celebean examples agree with specimens from India, Japan, China, Java, Malacca, 

 and Morty Island. In one the crown is ashy brown, the forehead albescent. The 

 black pectoral band is present, and the chin and throat are dirty rufous ; on the outer 

 tail-feathers the white mark is in the form of a diagonal oval drop. An example of an 

 adult bird has the head steel-blue; forehead, chin, and throat deep rufous, as in the 

 European H. rustica, the rufous breast being bounded by the usual black pectoral 

 band. Wing 4 J inches. 



Whether this and the other races of Chimney-Swallows which inhabit the Malay 

 archipelago and Eastern Asia are or are not of the same species as the European bird, 

 they undoubtedly belong to Sonnerat's Hirondelle d'Antigue. 



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