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Birds of Celebes: Hirundinidae. 
pink, spotted and speckled with brownish red and inky purple: size 17.8 — 21.3x12.7 
— 14 mm (Oates ed. Hume’s Nests and Eggs Ind. B. 1890, H, 184). The eggs of 
H. gutturalis do not differ from those of rustica^ are only a little smaller (Nehrkorn 
MS.). 
Nest. An open, saucer-shaped, or half-saucer-shaped, structure of mud, fixed upon or against 
a beam or such like under cover, lined with feathers, etc. It is doubtful whether 
this species breeds in Celebes. 
Distribution in the Celebes Province. Great Sangi (Bruijn’s Coll, a 5, a 9)] Minahassa 
(Meyer a 4, Riedel a 8)\ Togian Islands (Meyer a 4)\ Southern Peninsula of Celebes 
(Meyer a 4). 
H. gutturalis is recorded by Salvadori from most of the East India Islands 
as far as the north coast of Australia, by Sharjoe (a 7) from the Pelew Islands, 
by Seebohm (Ibis 1890, 102) from the Bonin Islands, where two specimens 
were observed for one day only, one being shot. 
Taczanowski (Faun. Orn. Sib. Orient. 1891, I, 173) records this race as 
far north as Kamtschatka. Hartert has recently noted its occurrence in the 
Natuna Islands and Sumba (Novitates Zool. 1894, 480; 1895, 471; 1896, 585), 
Bourns and Worcester in several additional islands of the Philipj)ines. 
Specimens captured at sea near the East Indies are recorded by Sharpe 
(a 7), by Finsch & Conrad (Verb. z.-b. G es. ^^'ien, 1873, p. 1 sep. copy), 
by the “Challenger” (see a X), and there is a specimen in the Dresden Museum 
taken by Meyer in the China Sea more than 100 miles west of Borneo, end 
of April, 1872, Though in the main a migrant, it is possible that some indi- 
viduals of this species remain to breed in the East Indies. It was obtained by 
Meyer on the Togian Islands in August, and it has been recorded from Am- 
boina in May, Tifore in August, New Guinea in .June (a 5, a 7). 
Only two Swallows are known from Celebes, the present species and H. 
iavanica^ which latter may be distinguished by the absence of the black pectoral 
collar and by its brownish grey- — ^ not white and buffy — under surface; also it 
does not acquire the long forked tail of H. rustica, having the outer rectrices 
only a little (in the adult about 10 mm) longer than the middle ones. 
^ 119. HTRUNDO JAVANICA Spanm. 
Java Swallow. 
Hirundo javanica (I) Sparrm., Mus. Carls. 1789, H, pi. 100; (II) Temm., PI. Col. 1823, 
pi. 83; Bernst., J. f. 0. 1859,267; (5) Wall., Ibis 1860, 147; id., P. Z. S. 
1862, 340; (5) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, VIH, 66; (6) Salvad., Cat. Ucc. Borneo 1874, 
126; (7) Hume, Str. E. 1876, IV, 374; (8) Hume & Davison, ih. 1878, VI, 43; 
(9) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 128, 146; (10) Hume, Str. F. 1879, VIII, 47, 1880, IX, 120; 
(11) Legge, B. Ceylon 1880, 597; (12) Salvad., Orn. Pap. 1881, H, 3; (13) Davison, 
Str. E. 1883, X, 345; (14) Meyer, Isis, Dresden 1884, 6, 22; (15) Pleske, Bull. 
Ac. Petersh. 1884, 121; (16) Guillem., P. Z. S. 1885, 261, 419,552; Sharpe, 
Cat. B. X, 1885, 142; (18) Ramsay, Tab. List 1888, 2; (19) W. Bias., Ornis 1888, 
308, 580; (20) Everett, J. Str. Br. R. A. S. 1889, 134; (21) Hartert, J. f. 0. 1889. 
