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HIRirXDINID^. 



Gould Collection. 



Purchased. 



India Museum. 



India Museum. 



India Museum. 



Capt. Stackhouse Pmwill 



fp.]. 

 B. H.Hodgson, Esq. [P]. 



(Types of H. siibsoccata.) 

 B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



(Types of If. minuta.) 

 B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 

 India Museum. 

 India Museum. (Type of 



H. brericaudafa.) 

 E. W. Gates, Esq. [C.]. 



Dr. J. Anderson [C.]. 



R. B. Sharps, Esq. [P.]. 



H. Cuming, Esq. [C.]. 



4. Cotile fuligula. 



L'Hirondelle fauve, ieiwY/. Ois. d'Afr. v. p. 156, pi. 246; Sundev. 

 Erit. Framst., Levaill. p. 52 (1867). 



Hirundo fuhgula, Licht. in Forst. Desa: Anim. p. 55 (1844) ; Orill, 

 Zool. Anteckn. p. 36 (1858). 



Hirundo hyemalis, Forster, Descr. Anim. p. 65 (1844). 



Cotyle fuligida, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 60 (1845) ; id. Cat. Fissir. Brit, 

 litis, p. 29 (1848) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 342 (1850) ; Cah. Mus. Hein. 

 Th. i. p. 164 (1850) ; Cass. Cat. Hirund. Mus. Philad. Acad. p. 12 

 (1853) ; Ilartl. Orn. Westafr. p. 28 (1857) ; id. J.f. 0. 1861, p. 103 ; 

 Gur77ei/, His, 1865, p. 264; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 57(1867); 

 Bocoffe, Jam. Lisb. 1868, p. 40 ; S/iarpe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 299 

 (pt.) ; id. Cat. Afr. B. p. 45 (1871) ; Gurney in Anderss. B. 

 Bam. Ld. p. 62 (1872) ; Shellni, Ibis, 1875, p. 68; Ayres, Ibis, 1876, 

 p. 424, 1878, p. 407, 1879, p. 291 ; Bocage, Orn. Angola, p. 187 (1881) ; 

 Salrin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 153 (1882) ; Btitler, Feilden, ^' Beid, 

 Zool. 1882, p. 250 ; Sharpe, ed. Bayard's B. S. Afr. p. 360 (1883). 



Cotile fidigula. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 73, no. 874. 



Adult male. General colour above dark sooty brown, the head 

 slightly more dusky than the back ; wing-coverts and quilJs darker 

 brown than the back, the inner greater coverts and scapulars of the 

 same sooty brown as the back ; tail-feathers dark brown, all but the 

 two centre feathers and the outermost with a large round white spot 

 on the inner web ; lores blackish ; ear-coverts and sides of neck 

 dark sooty brown like the back ; throat and breast tawny rufous, 

 extending OTcr the abdomen ; sides of breast, flanks, abdomen, and 

 under tail-coTerts dark sooty brown ; asillaries and under wing- 

 coTerts rufous, with sooty-brown bases, causing a mottled appearance 

 near the edge of the wing ; quills sooty brown below, paler along 

 the inner web : " bill black ; legs brown ; iris brown " {T. L. 



