104 HIEUNDINID^. 



bro^wn washed -with sandy nifous, the feathers broadly edged with 

 this colour, the rump and upper tail-covcrts nearly imiform rufous ; 

 wing-coverts and quills daiker brown, edged with sandy rufous ; 

 ear- coverts and sides of face pale brown, the lores and feathers of 

 the head washed with rufous ; throat and chest white, washed with 

 pale rufous ; sides of breast brown ; centre of breast, abdomen, and 

 iiuder tail-coverts white ; flanks brown washed with sandy rufous. 

 (j\lus. G. E. Shelley.) 



Ilah. North-eastern Africa. 



a. 5 ad. sk. Lake Ashanpij Abyssinia, W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



May 4, 1868. 



b. (S ad. sk. AngoUala, iSboa, May 1842 India Museum. 



{Harris). 



Subsp. /3. Cotile cowani. 

 Cotile cowani, SJtarpe, Journ.Linn. Soc, Zool. svi. p. 322 (1882). 



Adult female. General colour above dark sooty brown, slightly 

 paler on the lower back and rump ; wing-coverts like the back, the 

 inner greater coverts and inner secondaries rather lighter and 

 with slightly paler margins ; primary-coverts and quills very dark 

 brown ; tail-feathers very dark brown, with narrow paler edgings, 

 the outermost feathers very uaiTOwly fringed with white ; lores 

 blackish ; ear-coverts and sides of face dark sooty brown, the cheeks 

 and throat ashy brown ; remainder of under surface of body dark 

 ashy brown, including the thighs ; lower abdomen whitish ; under 

 tail-coverts pure white ; axillaries and under wing-coverts dark 

 ashy brown like the breast, the edge of the wing with paler ashy 

 margins to the feathers ; quills dark brown below, rather more ashy 

 along the inner web. Total length 4-8 inches, culmen 0"25, wing 

 3-65, tail 1-9, tarsus 0-4. 



There is no difference in colouring in the sexes. The male 

 measures- — total length 4-7 inches, wing 3'65, tail 1"9, tarsus 0"4. 



The young bird differs from the adult in having rufous margins 

 to the feathers of the upper surface, wing-coverts, and secondaries, 

 while the throat and breast are also sufl'used with rufous. 



Hab. Ankafana Porest, Betsileo, S.E. Madagascar. 



a, b. iS 2 ad. sk. Ankafana Forest, Rev. W. Deans Cowan [C.]. 



March 1881. (Types of species.) 



c. (Sjd,e. 2 ad. ; Ankafana Forest, Rev. W. Deans Cowan [C.]. 

 /, g. § juv. sk. March 1881. 



Subsp. y. Cotile sinensis. 



Hirundo chinensis, J. E. Gray in Hardtc. lUustr. Ind. Zool. i. pi. .35. 



fig. 3 (1830-32). 

 Hirundo brevieaudata, McClell. P.Z.S. 1839, p. 156; Gray, Gen. 



B. i. p. 58 (1845). 

 Hirundo sinensis, Jerd. Madr. Jnvrn. xi. p. 238 (1840) ; Bh/fh, J.A.S. 



Beng. xvi. p. 119 (1847); id. Cat. B. 3Iui. As. Soc. p. l99 (1849). 

 Cotyle brevieaudata, Boi'e, Ists, 1844, p. 170. 



