Order PASSERIFORMES. Family HI RUN DIN I DM 
No. 431. 
LAGENOPLASTES ARIEL. 
FAIRY MARTIN. 
(Plate 375.) 
Collocalia ARIEL Gould, Birds Austr., pt. ix., Dec. 1st, 1842 : New South Wales. 
Collocalia ariel Gould, Birds Austr., pt. ix. (Vol. II., p. 15), Dec. 1st, 1842 ; id., Proc. Zool. 
Soc. (Lond.), 1842, p. 132, Feb. 1843. 
Hirundo ariel Gray, Genera Birds, Yol. I., p. 58, 1845. 
Chelidon ariel Gould, Introd. Birds Austr., p. 29, 1848. 
Herse ariel Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 340, 1850-1. 
Lillia ariel Boie, Journ. fur Orn., 1858, p. 364. 
Lagenoplastes ariel Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 113, 1865; Ramsay, Proc. 
Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 179, 1878; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 3, 1888 ; 
North, Austr. Mus. Cat. No. 12, p. 33, 1890 ; Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 165, 
1913. 
Petrochelidon ariel Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. X., p. 199, 1885; Sharpe and 
Wyatt, Mon. Hirund., pts. in. and iy. (p. 585, pi. 112), 1886 ; Campbell, Nests 
and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 457, 1901 ; Berney, Emu, Vol. IV., p. 45, 1904 
(Q.) ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 47, 1906 ; Batey, Emu, Vol. VII., p. 10, 
1907 (Vic.); Hall and Rogers, ib., p. 140, 1908 (N.W.A.) ; Mathews, Hand! 
Birds Austral., p. 61, 1908 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. II., pt. m., 
p. 244, 1909; Barnard, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 92, pi. vi., 1909 (Q.) ; Littler, Handb. 
Birds Tasm., p. 70, 1910 ; Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 302, 1912. 
Petrochelidon ariel conigravi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 3, p. 75, June 28th, 
1912 ; Wyndham, North-west Australia. 
Petrochelidon ariel ariel Mathews, ib. 
Lagenoplastes ariel ariel Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 165, 1913 : Belcher, Birds Geelong, 
p. 219, 1914. 
Lageno'plastes ariel conigravi Mathews, ib. 
Distribution - . Australia and Tasmania. 
Adult male. Crown of head and sides of the face rufous with dark shaft-streaks to the 
feathers ; mantle and upper back glossy blue-black ; wings and tail dark brown ; 
rump and short upper tail-coverts isabelline-buff with darker shaft-lines, the long 
upper tail-coverts rust-brown ; throat, fore-neck, sides of the body and under 
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