Lorne Johnson raised this topic. I hesitate to contribute, but maybe it is
time that we found out more about these birds.
The Pacific Swallow has not been accepted for Australia. I understood that
the swallows in question had been mist netted and banded. I saw them many
years ago north of Mossman at a chicken farm, where they had been reported
by others. The birds that I saw did not have white spots on the
tail. Rather they had a white sub terminal bar on each side of the
tail. I have taken an interest in Welcome Swallows ever since, and these
are still the only Welcome Swallows that I have seen with bars on the tail,
rather than spots. They had the less forked tail, etc. This was a while
ago, but there were at least three birds from memory, maybe as many as six.
So why were these birds not accepted?
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