The Birds of Australia, Vol. 2 of 7

by John Gould

CHELIDON ARBOREA: Gould.
J. Gould and H. C. Richter, del^t C. Hullmandel Imp.

COLLOCALIA ARBOREA.
Tree Martin.

Dun-rumped Swallow, Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. vii. p. 309.

Hirundo pyrrhonota, Lath. MSS.—Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 190.

Hirundo nigricans, Vieill. Ency. Méth., Part II. p. 525?

Gäb-by-kal̈-lan-goö-rong, Aborigines of the lowlands of Western Australia.

Martin of the Colonists.

The specific term of pyrrhonota having been given to a bird of this group by Vieillot, prior to the publication of the List of Australian Birds by Messrs. Vigors and Horsfield in the Linnean Transactions, as quoted above, I have been necessitated to furnish this species with a new appellation, and have selected that of arborea as indicative of its habits; for in every part of Australia that I have visited, it invariably selects the holes of trees for the purpose of nidification.

It is strictly a summer visitant to Van Diemen’s Land and all the southern portions of Australia, arriving in August and retiring northwards as autumn approaches.