. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. ]. CHELIBON. 89. Tail of Chelidon urhica. Adult female. Similar to the male in colour. Total length 5 inches, culmen 0"35, wing 4-3, tail 2-5, tarsus 0-45. Young. Distinguished from the adults at a glance by the yellow gape and white fringes at the ends of the secondaries. The colour of the upper surface is much duller, being often of a dingy brown with a gloss of purplish or greenish steel-blue ; the throat is pale smoky brown, weU defined on the fore neck, and contrasting with the rest of the under surface, which is pure white. Before leav
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. ]. CHELIBON. 89. Tail of Chelidon urhica. Adult female. Similar to the male in colour. Total length 5 inches, culmen 0"35, wing 4-3, tail 2-5, tarsus 0-45. Young. Distinguished from the adults at a glance by the yellow gape and white fringes at the ends of the secondaries. The colour of the upper surface is much duller, being often of a dingy brown with a gloss of purplish or greenish steel-blue ; the throat is pale smoky brown, weU defined on the fore neck, and contrasting with the rest of the under surface, which is pure white. Before leaving England, the plumage becomes worn and dingy brown, but the new feathers begin to show in examples killed late in October. Young birds in first autumn plumage often have the fore neck buff-coloured. Hab. All over Europe in summer, breeding even in the far north. Specimens have been procured in South-eastern Africa, and its winter home is therefore probably Central Africa. It straggles also to Turkestan and North-western India; but as sufiicient care has not been taken by collectors to distinguish between this species and C. cashmiriensis, its Indian range cannot well be determined. a. (5 ad. sk. Axmouth, Devon, April 1883 {H. Swaysland). h. (S ad. st. Axmouth, Devon, AprU 1883 {H. Swaysland). c. Juv. sk. Devonshire. d. Var. alb. st. Devonshire. e. "Var. alb. st. Devonshire. f. 2 ad. sk. Alton, Hants (J. G.). g. h. 2 ad. sk. Avington, Hants, May 14. i. Var. alb. st. Pagham, Sussex, Sept. k, I. Juv. sk. Brighton, Oct. 1883 (H. Sicaysland). 7)1. Juv. sk. Brighton, end of October {I£. Swaysland). n. 2 ad.; o. c? juv. Cookham, Berks, Aug. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. Col. Montagu [P.]. Col. Montagu [ J. Prideaux, Esq. [P.]. Gould Collection. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. J. E. Harting, Esq. IC.]. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.].. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have b
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