2. COTILE. 101 



Egyptian Sand-Martin, one killed in April, the other in February: 

 the latter has the wing 3'G inches in length. The smallest specimen 

 of young C. riparia we have examined measures 3-9 inches m the 

 -n-ing. 



2. Cotile cincta. 



Hirondelle brune a collier du Cap de Bonne Esperance, Dauhent, PL 



Enl. vii. pi. 723. 

 Hiruudo ciucta, Bodcl. Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 45 (1783, ex Daubent). 

 Brown-collared Swallow, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 2, p. 577 (1783). 

 Hirundo torquata, Gm.Syst. Nat. ii. p. 577 (1788) ; Lath. hid. Orn. 



ii. p. 579 (1790) ; Keulem. N. Tijdschr. iii. p. 384 (1866). 

 Cotyle torquata, ItUpp. St/st. Uebers. p. 22 (1845) ; £p. Consp. i. 



p. 342 (1850) ; Heugl. Sijst. Uebers. p. 17 (1856) ; id. Ibis, 1859, 



p. 339. 

 Cotyle cincta, (?ray, Gen. B. i. p. 60 (1845) ; id. Cat. Fissir. Brit. 



Mus. p. 30 (1848) ; Horsf. c^ Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. i. 



p. 97 (1854) ; Lai/ard, B. S. Afr. p. 58 (1867) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1868, 



p. 43; Hewjl. Orn. N.O.-Afr.i. p. 164 (1869); Finsch ^- Hartl. 



Vog. Ostafr. p. 144 (1870) ; Blarif. Geol. ^- Zool. Abyss, p. 349 



(1870) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 297 ; id. Ibis, 1870, p. 479 ; id. 



Cat. Afr. B. p. 45 (1871) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1873, p. 281, 1874, p. 106 ; 



Ussher, Ibis, 1874, p. 62; Buckley, ^. c. 1874, p. 375; Sharped 



Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i. p. 38 (1876) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1876, 



p. 424, 1878, p. 286 ; Bocage, Orn. Angola, p. 188 (1877-81) ; 



Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 358 (1883); Shelley, Ibis, 1882, 



p. 259 ; Butler, Feilden, Sf Peid, Zool. 1882, p. 250 ; Socage, Jorn. 



Lisb. 1882, p. 22 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. (2) i. p. 121 



(1884). 

 Cotyle eques, Hartl. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 325 ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1870, 



p. 297. 

 Cotile cincta. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 73, no. 875 (1869). 

 Cotile eques, Gray, t. c. p. 74, no. 879 (1869). 



Adult male. General colour above brown, rather lighter on the 

 rump and upper tail-coverts, the head somewhat darker ; wing- 

 coverts like the back, some of the outer ones near the bend of the 

 wing with paler edges ; bastard-wing, primarj'-coverts, and quills 

 dark brown, a little Ughter on the edges of the feathers ; tail-feathers 

 dark brown ; lores blackish as well as the feathers round the eye ; 

 above the lores a broad streak of creamy white ; ear-coverts dark 

 brown ; sides of neck brown like the back ; cheeks and entire throat 

 white, separated from the breast by a very broad band of chocolate- 

 brown ; rest of the body white, the flanks slightly shaded with 

 smoky brown ; in the centre of the breast a streak of dark brown in 

 continuation of the brown pectoral band, several of the feathers 

 being dark brown on their inner webs ; thighs and adjacent feathers 

 on the sides of the rump brown ; axillaries and under wing-coverts 

 white, slightly shaded with smoky brown ; quills dusky brown 

 below : " bill and legs black ; iris dark hazel " (Buclieif). Total 

 length 6-1 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 5, tail 2-4, tarsus 0-5. 



Adult fcmaJe. Similar in plumage to the male. Total length 

 G-2 inches, culmen 4, wiug 5, tail 2-4, tarsus 0-45. 



