Mr. R. Swinhoe on Birds from Hakodadi. 151 
govinda, Sykes. Our ordinary bird will probably be the M. 
major of Hume. 
2. Small Chimney-Swallow. Hirundo gutturalis, Scop. ;c;/r 
Two males, both shot in May. One is evidently an older ^ 0 
bird than the other, with the white tail-spots larger, and with 
the underparts tinged with pink. They are of precisely the 
same species that summers everywhere along the China coast. 
3. Black-chinned Martin. Chelidon blakistoni. (Plate 
VII. fig. 1.) 
Chelidon blakistoni , Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1862, p. 320; Ibis, 
1863, p. 90. 
A male specimen, shot at Hakodadi in May, has been sent, 
which entirely agrees with the typical male procured before 
in July, except as regards the under tail-coverts, which are 
brownish at tips in the present skin, instead of black as in 
the former one. They may heighten in colour as the bird 
gets older. 
This Black-chinned Martin has a near ally in the smaller 
Delichon nipalensis , Hodgs., of Nepaul, and also, indeed, in the 
Hirundo dasypus, Bonap., of Borneo; but in the description 
of the latter (Consp. Av. p. 343) no mention is made of the 
black chin. 
Blakiston, in his letter to me under date 4 Aug. 1873, 
says, “ shot nine specimens yesterday, not yet skinned, mea¬ 
sure 5 to 5J and 4 to 4J; builds against overhanging cliffs.” 
This bird has not turned up in China on its southward mi¬ 
gration, and very possibly, with Sturnia pyrrhogenys , and 
probably other species, goes direct south to the Philippines 
to pass the winter, if, indeed, it does not extend to Borneo, 
and prove to be identical with H. dasypus mentioned above*. 
To contrast with the bird from Japan the acting editor has 
* I wrote and requested Mr. Gustav Sclilegel, of Batavia, who is now 
residing with his father, Dr. H. Schlegel, at Leiden, to examine the spe¬ 
cimens of Hirundo dasypus for me. He reports that the Leiden museum 
has two skins from Borneo, which look like those of young birds, that 
they both have black on the chins and are dingy on the under parts. This 
strengthens my supposition that the Borneo bird may be the same as that 
from North Japan. 
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