Catalogue of mammals and birds of Burma / by the late E. Blyth ; with a memoir, and portrait of the author.

  • Edward Blyth
Date:
1875
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Credit: Catalogue of mammals and birds of Burma / by the late E. Blyth ; with a memoir, and portrait of the author. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Swallows. 1875.] [428. H. TYTLERI. H. tytleri, Jerdon, Li. Ind. iii. p. 870. Thayet Hyo (0.); Tavoy (Z).).] [429. H. horreorum. H. liorreorum, Barton, Fragm. N. H. 1799, p. 17. Tonghoo ( W. it.). Undistinguisliable l'rom Californian examples.] [430. H. filieera (J. 84). Pahpoon (D.).] *431. Cecropis erythropygia (J. 85, partim). Hirundo erythropygia, Sykes; Gould, B. As. pt. xx. pi. 10; Ibis, 1866, p. 337. Common in parts of the jungles, at least during the northern winter. [432. C. STRIOLATA. Hirundo striolata, Tem., Faun. Japonica, p. 33. Karen nee, at 2600 feet, in March; Karen hills, at 3000 feet, in January (W. R.). Identical with Flores, Formosan, and Chinese examples. Quite distinct from C. erythropygia, which is barely separable from C. rufula.] 433. Chelidon urbica (J. 92). Col. Tickell writes: “There are great numbers here” (at Moulmein) “in the season ; and I have also seen large flocks of them in India, but they appear from time to time, not constantly, as does JT. rustica *434. Cotyle sinensis (J. 89). Common along the rivers, where it holds the place of C. riparia in Europe. [Tonghoo (7F. R.); Pahpoon (Zk). C. obscurior, Hume, Str. Feath. iii. p. 43, is founded on a single indifferent specimen of a species of Cotyle obtained at Thayet Myo by Mr. Oates.] Farn. Artamidse. Clusterers. *435. Artamus fuscus (J. 287). Arakan, Tenasserim, Siam, Hainan. In the Andamans and Nicobars, A. leucorhynclius (Lin.) replaces it. [Tonghoo, Thayet Myo, Karen hills (W. Z2.).] * J. A. S. B. xxiv. p. 809.