proportion to the size of the bird and is composed of mud; it is fixed to the roofs of
verandahs of houses and other buildings, or on rocks which have protuberances similar to
a ceiling. In July it lays five or six eggs, and in August the young leave the nest,
and quit the country in September.
In Corea, according to Mr. Kalinowski, it is rare in summer, and does not seem to
come every year. In 1888 it nested, but in 1889 not one was seen.
For the geographical distribution of this species, vide infra, Plate 78 [Map].
HI RUNDO S T R I OL A T A [anted, p. sei].
Add
Ilirundo striolata, Sharpe & AVyatt, Alonogr. Hirund. pt. i. (1885).
For the geographical distribution of this species, vide infrd, Plato 79 [Alap].
Add
H I R U N D O N I P A L E N S I S [anted, p. 365].
Hirundo nipalensis, Sharpe & AV^yatt, Alonogr. Hirund. pt. xiv. (1890); Sclater,
Ihis, 1891, p. 44; De la Touche, Ibis, 1892, p. 408.
? Hirundo daurica, St. John, Ibis, 1889, p. 155.
Hirundo alpestris (nec Pall.), Styan, Ibis, 1891, pp. 323, 351.
I t is probably to this species that the following note by the late Sir Oliver St. John
refers :—“ In 1881 I saw a small flock of Red-rumped Swallows near Kach, but failed
to procure a specimen. AVhich of the many forms of U. daurica they belonged to I cannot
therefore say.”
Air. Styan says that in the Lower Yangtse Basin it arrives rather later than
H. gutturalis, and leaves about the same time; it is not nearly so common as the latter,
but still is numerous enough; it also breeds in tho natives’ houses. He adds :—“ I can
throw no light on the vexed question of the various subspecies of this group, and all the
specimens I have examined appear to he of one species.”
Air. De la Touche writes :—“ At Swatow both 11. gutturalis and H. nipalensis arc
residents, the former being of course far more abundant in summer than in winter. At
Foochow the Swallows are migratory or else summer visitants. On one or two occasions
only in winter I noticed there a stray House-Swallow.”
For the geographical distribution of this species, vide infrd, Plate 81 [Alap].
Add
Hirundo erythropygia, Sharpe & Wyatt, Alonogr. Hiruud. pt. xiv. (1890).
For the geographical distribution of this species, vide infrd, Plate 82 [Alap].
HI RUNDO ME L A NOC R I S S A [anted, p. 379].
Add
Hirundo melanocrissa, Sharpe & AA'yatt, Alonogr. Hirund. pt. iv. (1886); Salvad.
Ann. Alns. Civic. Genov. (2) vi. p. 231 (1888).
P rocur ed b y Dr. Ragazzi in Shoa, at Gasciamulh in April, at Lot-AIarafia iu Alay and
November, at Buscoftu in June, and at Dens in July. In the latter month young birds
were obtained, which Count Salvador! describes for the first time. He says that the
three specimens had only just left the nest; they were much smaUer than the adults,
with the black of the upper parts less intense and having a greenish reflection, the inner
secondaries having a reddish tip, the rump of a duller rufous than the adults, but tlie
under surface of the body brighter, more or less variegated on the breast with blackish.
For the geographical distribution of this species, vide infrd, Plate 79 [Alap].
H I R U N D O DOMI C E L L A [anted, j>. s si].
Add:—
Hirundo domicella, Sharpe & AVyatt, Alonogr. Hirund. pt. ii. (1885).
Hirundo rufula togoensis, Reichenow, J. f. 0 . 1891, p. 382.
H. TOGOEysis was discoTOi-ed by Dr. Büttner in Togo Land, in Fobruary. Two spc-
oimens were obtained on tbe 10th and 21st of that month, and Dr, lleichenow points
out that the species is very like S . rufula, but is distinguished by its smaller size,
shorter wings, by tbe entire absence of stripes underneath, and hy the deeper chestnut-
red colour of the nape.
Dr. Reichenow, in answer to our inquiries, tells us that he was at first inclined to
refer the Togo-Land specimens to H. domicella, hut he points out that in this species
the under tail-coverts are described as “ glossy steel-blue ” in tlie ‘ Catalogue of Birds.’
In his examples of H. togoensis, he says, the under tail-covcrts have only the tips blue,
ul the base pale, as in U. rufula, of which he considers U. togoensis to he a race. Tlie
rump, however, is described by him as uniform rufous, not shading off paler as in