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CATALOGUE. 
Fam. HIRUNDINID^. 
Subfam. HIRUJSTDININA. 
Genus Hirundo, Linn. {p. 91). 
620. HI RUN DO DOMICOLA, Jerdon. 
Hirundo domicola, Jerd., Madr. Journ. XIII. p. 173 
(1844). Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. 8. Beng. p. 198. 
Hirundo javanica, ajpud ShaWj Zool. X. p. 101. Lath., 
Hist. VII. p. 300. 
Bungalow Swallow, of Eesidents in the Neilgherries, 
Jerdon. 
A. B. c. d e. f. Pinang. Presented by Dr. Cantor, 
April, 1854. 
" This curiously-plumaged little swallow is by no means rare on 
the Neilgherries, and builds in retired or deserted bungalows, out- 
houses, &c., making a small mud nest, quite open at the top, and 
profusely lined with feathers." — (Jerdon.) 
Genus Delichon, {Hodgs.) Moore, P. Z. S. (1854), p. 
621. DELICHON NIFALENSIS, Hodgson.^ 
Delichon nipalensis, (Hodgs.') Moore, P. Z. S. (1854), p. 
The Nepal Martin. 
A. B. Nepal (No. 963, Hodgs. Catal.). Presented by B. 
H. Hodgson, Esq., September, 1853. 
Gen. char. Bill short, thick, robust ; gape rather wide ; the 
culmen rounded ; the nostrils basal, lateral, rounded ; wings rather 
long, with the first quill the longest ; tail short and emarginated, or 
nearly even at the end ; tarsi longer than the middle toe, and clothed 
with plumes ; toes long, and clothed with plumes, the inner shorter 
than the outer ; the claws moderate and curved. 
Spec. char. Top of the head, chin, cheeks, ear-coverts, nape, back, 
* In the Leyden Museum there is a bird from Borneo allied to but distinct 
from this, to which M. Temminck has applied the name of Hirv/ndo dasypus, and 
which is placed in Bonaparte's " Consp. Gen. Av." p. 343, under the genus 
Chelidon, with the following remarks : " Media quasi inter CotyUs et Chelidonem, 
cujus autem altera species ; pedibus dense plumosis : minor ; cauda multo breviore, 
minus emarginata : coloribus similibus, subtus autem sordidior, collari adumbrato." 
