Editing Welcome swallow (section)

==Taxonomy==
The welcome swallow was first described in 1842 by [[John Gould]] in his ''[[The Birds of Australia (Gould)|The Birds of Australia]]''<ref name= Gould1>{{cite book | last=Gould | first=John | author-link=John Gould | date=December 1842| title=The Birds of Australia | volume=2 | location=London | publisher=Published by the author | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48200541 }}</ref> as a member of the genus ''[[Hirundo]]'', but the first publication is often incorrectly given as in the ''Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London''.<ref name= Gould2>{{cite journal|last=Gould |first=John |date=February 1843|title= Untitled [Hirundo neoxena sp. nov.]|journal= Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London |volume=10 |page=131|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2PAKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA131}}</ref><ref name=Mcallan >{{cite journal|last= Mcallan |first= Ian A.W. |year= 2004|title= Corrections to the original citations and type localities of some birds described by John Gould and recorded from New Zealand |journal= Notornis
|volume= 51|pages=125–130 |url=http://www.notornis.org.nz/free_issues/Notornis_51-2004/Notornis_51_3_125.pdf}}</ref> Both its species name and common name refer to people welcoming its return as a herald of spring in southern parts of Australia.<ref name= Gould2/>