Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 429. 
Family IIIRUNDINIDJE. 
CHERAMCECA LEUCOSTERNUM. 
BLACK AND WHITE SWALLOW. 
(Plate 374.) 
Hirundo leucosternus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1840, p. 172, July 1841 : 
Namoi River, New South Wales. 
Collocalia? leucosterna Gould, Grey’s Journ. Two Exped. Disc. Austr., Vol. II., App., 
p. 416, 1841. Nom. nud. 
Hirundo leucosternus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1840, p. 172, 1841. 
Atticora leucosternon Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. I., p. 58, 1845 ; Gould, Birds Austr., pt. rx., 
(Vol. II., pi. 12), Dec. 1st, 1842 ; Diggles, Omith. Austr., pt. xvn., 1868. 
Cheramoeca leucosterna Cabanis, Mus. Heine, Vol. I., p. 49, 1851 ; Gould, Handb. Birds 
Austr., Vol. I., p. 115, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 179, 
1878 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. X., p. 171, 1885 ; Ramsay, Tab. list 
Austr. Birds, p. 3, 1888 ; Sharpe and Wyatt, Mon. Hirund., pts. xi. and xn. 
(p. 433, pi. 86), 1889 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 454, 
1901 ; Berney, Emu, Vol. IV., p. 44, 1904 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 47, 1906 ; 
Mathews, Hand!. Birds Austral., p. 61, 1908; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, 
Vol. II., pt. in., p. 238, 1909; Whitlock, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 193, 1909; Mathews, 
List Birds Austr., p. 164, 1913. 
Cheramceca leucosternum leucosternum Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 300, 1912 ; 
id., List Birds Austr., p. 164, 1913. 
Cheramoeca leucosternum marngli Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 301, Jan. 31st, 
1912 : Fitzroy River, North-west Australia. 
Cheramoeca leucosternum stonei Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 118, 1912 : Warialda, 
New South Wales ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 164, 1913. 
Distribution. Australia. 
Adult female. Crown of head isabelline with dark bases to the feathers, which gives a 
dusky appearance on the middle of the crown ; lores and feathers surrounding 
the eye blackish ; space behind the eye, ear-coverts, and a broad band on the hind- 
neck dusky-brown ; mantle and upper back, throat, breast, thighs, axillaries, and 
under wing-coverts white more or less tinged with isabelline ; wings, lower back, 
upper tail-coverts, and tail blackish with a steel-blue gloss on the upper wing- 
coverts which is more intense on the lower back and upper tail-coverts ; abdomen 
and under tail-coverts black ; under-surface of flight-quills dark brown with white 
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