Order PASSERIFORMES. Family HIRUNDINID/E. 
No. 430. 
HYLOCHELIDON NIGRICANS. 
TREE-MARTIN. 
(Plate 375.) 
Hirundo nigricans Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., 2nd ed., Vol. XIV., p. 523, Sept. 
13th, 1817 : Hobart Town, Tasmania. 
Hirundo nigricans Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., nouv. ed., Vol. XIV., p. 523, 1817 ; 
id., Ency. Meth., Vol. II., p. 525, 1821. 
Dun-rumped Swallow, Latham, Gen. Hist. Birds, Vol. VII., p. 309, 1824. 
Hirundo pyrrhonota Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 190, 
1827 : New South Wales. 
Not of Vieillot, as above, p. 519, 1817. 
Her sc nigricans Lesson, Compl. Buff., Vol. VIII., p. 497, 1837. 
Cecropus nigricans Boie, Isis, 1844, p. 175. 
Collocalia arborea Gould, Birds Austr., pt. ix. (Vol. II., pi. 14), Dec. 1st, 1842 : Tasmania. 
Chelidon arborea Gould, Introd. Birds Austr., p. 29, 1848 (? after Aug.). 
Hirundo pyrrhonota australis Temminck und Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Aves, p. 35, 1850 : 
Tasmania. 
Petrochelidon nigricans Cabanis, Mus. Heine, Vol. I., p. 47, 1850 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus., Vol. X., p. 190, 1885 ; Sharpe and Wyatt, Mon. Hirund., pts. v. and 
vi. (p. 525, pi. 103), 1887 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 3, 1888 ; North, 
Austr. Mus. Cat. No. 12, p. 32, 1890 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., 
p. 456, 1901 ; Dove, Emu, Vol. II., p. 20, 1902 (Tas.) ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., 
p. 47, 1906; Batey, Emu, Vol. VII., p. 10, 1907 (Vic.). ; Dove, ib., Vol. VIII., 
p. 38, 1908; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 61,1908; North, Austr. Mus. 
Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. II., pt. hi., p. 241, 1909; Littler, Handb. Birds Austr., p. 69, 
1910. 
Chelidon nigricans Lichtenstein, Nomencl. Av., p. 61, 1854. 
Hylochelidon nigricans Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. Ill, 1865; Ramsay, Proc. 
Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 179, 1878 ; Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 164, 
1913. 
Hirundo arborea Pelzeln, Reise Novara Vogel, p. 41, 1875. 
Hydrochelidon (sic) nigricans Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. III., p. 275, 1879. 
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