_Eurystomus orientalis connectens_ Stresemann, Novit. Zool., 20,
1913, p. 302. (Type locality, Moa.)
_Eurystomus orientalis connectens_ Yamashina, Tori, 10, 1940, p.
675 (Babelthuap); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 199
(Babelthuap).
_Eurystomus orientalis pacificus_ Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific,
1945, p. 302 (Palau).
_Geographic range._--Celebes and adjacent islands, Lesser Sunda
Islands from Lombock to Damar, Southeastern Islands. In Micronesia:
Palau Islands--Babelthuap.
_Remarks._--Yamashina (1940:675) records an adult male taken at
Babelthuap in 1938. He assigns it to _E. o. connectens_, comparing it
with a series of 15 specimens of this race from Celebes, Halmahera and
Batchian. Mayr (1045a:302) refers this visitor to Palau to _E. o.
pacificus_ (Latham); this form is migratory and may fly north from
Australia to the Melanesian area between breeding seasons.
=Hirundo rustica gutturalis= Scopoli