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Hirundo daurica, Linn. Mantissa Plant. App. p. 528 (1771) ; Gm. S. N. i. p. 1021
(1788); Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 376 (1790); Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 57 (1815); Bp.
Consp. i. p. 338 (1850); Selys-Longch. Bull. Acad. R. Bclg. xxii. pt. 2, p. 103
(1855); Sharpe, Cat. Birds in Brit. Mus. X . p. 159 (1885) ; Oates, Faun. Brit.
Ind., Birds, ii. p. 282 (1890).
Hirundo alpestris, Pall. Reis. Russ. Reichs, ii. App. no. 19 (1771-76); id. Zoogr.
Rosso-Asiat. i. p. 531, pi. 30 (1811) ; Blasius, Nachtr. Naum. Vog. Deutschl.
xiii. p. 209, pi. 383. fig. 3 (1860) ; Radde, Reis. Sibir., Vog. p. 280 (1863) ; Finsch,
Verb. z.-h. Ges. 'VVicn,xxix. p. 150 (1879); Seebohm, Ibis, 18S3, p. 169; Homcyer
& Tancré, ^[T. orn. Ver. IVien, 1883, p. 83.
Haurian Sicalloic, Latli. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 2, p. 570 (1783).
Ceeropis daurica,'Less. Compì. Buff. viii. p. 498 (1837); Boie, Isis, 1811, p. 17 1 ;
Dybowski, J. f. O. 1876, p. 192; David & Oust. Ois. Cliine, p. 125 (1877, pt.).
Ceeropis alpestris, Boic, Isis, 1811, p. 171; Gould, B. Asia, i. pi. 28 (1800);
Dybowski, J. f. 0 . 1868, p. 336, 1872, p. 352,1874, p. 331,1875, p. 211 ; Taczaii.
Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i. p. 133 (1876); Prjev. in Rowley’s Orn. Misc. ii. p. 161
(1877); David & Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 125 (1878).
m U a aipestris, Boic, J. f. O. 1858, p. 361.
lAllia intermedia, llume, Str. F. v. p. 203 (1877).
Lillia substriolata, Hume, Str. F. v. p. 261 (1877).
Hirundo intermedia, Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 81 (1879).
Hirundo substriolata, Ilume, Str. F. viii. p. 81 (1879).
I I . u ro pygio ru fo ; pilco dorso concolore : su b tù s p a llide rn fe s c en s , d is tin c tè strio la ta .
Hab. in Siberiil o rie n ta li, in tcrrA Assamic à liibe rnaus.
A d u lt male. G en e ra l coloiir above de ep b lu e , th e b a ck m u ch s tre a k e d with w hite when th e fe a th e rs are
d is tu rb e d ; h e ad like th e h a ck , and n o t sep a ra ted b y a n u c h a l colla r from th e m an tle ; le s s e r and
m ed ian wiiig-coverts lik e th e b.ack, th e g r e a te r coverts, b a s ta rd -w in g , p rim a ry -co v c rts , a n d quiiUs
bla ckish, ex te rn a lly glossed with b lu e ; lowe r b a ck a n d rum p c in n am o n -ru fo u s, with a few bla ck ish
sha ft-liuc s, ve ry iu d is tin c t ; u p p e r ta il-c o v e rts d a rk b lu e ; ta il- f e a th e r s Ma ckish, glossed s lig h tly
w ith blue ; lo re s b la ck ish , w h ite r a t b a se , and su rm o u n te d by a na rrow lin e o f rufous, fo rm in g a
s lig h t eyebrow, which expands in to a b ro a d n eo k -p a tch o f c in n am o n -ru fo u s , b eh in d th e e a r-
covcrts, which a re din g y w h itish wa shed with rufous a n d d is tin c tly s tre a k e d w ith black sh a lt-
strc a k s ; cheeks a n d th ro a t also din g y w h itish , with b ro a d e r b la ck ish sh a ft-s tre a k s ; rem a in d e r of