Order PASSERIFORMES. 
Family H1RUND1NIDJE. 
No. 428. 
HIRUNDO NEOXENA. 
WELCOME SWALLOW. 
(Plate 374.) 
Hirundo neoxena Gould, Birds Austr., pt. ix., Dec. 1st, 1842 : Tasmania. 
Hirundo javanica, Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 191, 1827* 
Not Sparrman, Mus. Carlson, pi. 100, 1789. 
Hirundo pacifica “ Gray,” Griffith and Pidgeon, Animal Kingdom (Cuvier), Vol. VII., 
pi. to page 96, “ 1829 ” : New Holland. 
Not of Latham, Index Orn. Suppl., p. lviii., 1801. 
Cotyle familiaris Gould, Grey’s Journ. Two Exped. Disc. Austr., Vol. II., App., p. 416, 
1841. Nom. nud. 
Hirundo neoxena Gould, Birds Austr., pt. ix. (Vol. II., pi. 13), Dec. 1st, 1842 ; id., Proc. 
Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1842, p. 131, Feb. 1843; Diggles, Ornith. Austr., pt. xvn., 
1868; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. X., p. 144, 1885; Sharpe and Wyatt, 
Mon. Hirund., pts. v. and vi. (p. 289, pi. 48), 1887 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. 
Birds, p. 2, 1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat. No. 12, p. 30, 1890; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 450, 1901 ; Dove, Emu, Vol. II., p. 20, 
1902 (Tas.) ; Littler, id., Vol. III., p. 213, 1904 (Tas.) ; Berney, id., Vol. IV., 
p. 44, 1904 (Q.). ; Fletcher, id., Vol. IV., p. 16, 1904; Vol. VI., p. 18, 1906 (Tas.) ; 
Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 47, 1906; Batey, Emu, Vol. VII., p. 10, 1907 (Vic.); 
Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 60, 1908 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. 
No. 1, Vol. II., pt. in., p. 234, 1909 ; Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 68, 1910 ; 
Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 163, 1913. 
Hirundo frontalis Gray, List. Spec. Birds B.M., Vol. II., sect, i., p. 22, 1848 ; Gould', Handb. 
Birds Austr., p. 107, 1865; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 179, 1878. 
Not of Quoy et Gaimard, Voy. “l’Astrol.,” Zool., Vol. I., p. 204, 1830. 
Hypurolepis neoxena Gould, Birds Asia, Vol. I., text to pi. 32, 1868. 
Chelidon javanica neoxena Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 300, 1912. 
Chelidon javanica carteri Mathews, ib., Jan. 31st, 1912 : Broome Hill, West Australia. 
Hirundo neoxena neoxena Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 163, 1913; Belcher, Birds. 
Geelong, p. 216, 1914. 
Hirundo neoxena carteri Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. Australia. Extra-limital. 
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