Whereas adults of the nominate race have a broad dark bluish-black breast band, this subspecies has an incomplete breast band, in which the rufous colour of the forehead, chin and throat is partly extended. In addition to the bluish-black upperparts, the rufous colour of
the forehead, chin and throat, and the off-white underparts of the nominate
race, Hirundo rustica gutturalis also
have pinkish-buff lower underparts.
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Barn Swallow |
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