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Nepal house martin : ウィキペディア英語版 | Nepal house martin
The Nepal house martin (''Delichon nipalense'')〔Frequently ''Delichon nipalensis'' in older sources, but ''nipalense'' is currently preferred in accordance with 〕 is a non-migratory passerine of the swallow family Hirundinidae. Its two subspecies breed in the Himalayas from northwestern India through Nepal to Burma, northern Vietnam, and just into China. It occurs in river valleys and rugged wooded mountain ridges at heights between altitude, where it nests in colonies beneath overhangs on vertical cliffs, laying three or four white eggs in an enclosed mud nest. This martin has blue-black upperparts with a contrasting white rump, and white underparts. It resembles its close relatives, the Asian house martin and common house martin, but unlike those species it has a black throat and black undertail. It feeds in flocks with other swallows, catching flies and other insects in flight. It is subject to predation and parasites, but its status within its limited range appears secure. ==Taxonomy== The Nepal house martin was first described by British entomologist Frederic Moore in 1854, and placed in a new genus ''Delichon'' created by Moore and American naturalist Thomas Horsfield. The specimen or its description was attributed by Moore to Brian Houghton Hodgson and early literature sometimes refers to in as Hodgson's martin. Some older taxonomic sources such as those by S D Ripley specify the binomial author as "Hodgson = Moore in Horsfield & Moore, 1854". Its closest relatives are the two other members of the genus, the Asian house martin and the common house martin.〔 This martin has a distinctive subspecies, ''D. n. cuttingi'', described by American biologist Ernst W. Mayr in 1941 from a specimen taken near the Burma-Yunnan border. White-throated birds in the southern extension of the range are similar in appearance to the nominate subspecies, but because of their geographical separation are sometimes considered to be a third race, ''D. n. bartletti''.〔 ''Delichon'' is an anagram of the Ancient Greek term ''χελιδών'' (''chelīdōn''), meaning "swallow", and ''nipalense'' refers to Nepal, where the type specimen was obtained.〔
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