2. COTILE. Ill 



r. S ad. sk. Lepsa, Ala Tau, Mav 14. Dr. O. Finsch [0.]. 



s. $ ad. sk. Kai-ij VaUey, Elbiirz W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



Mountains, Aug. 14, 



1872. 

 t. Ad. sk. Ladakh. Purchased. 



u. 2 ad. sk. Gilgit, March 24, 1879. Col. J. Biddulph [C.]. 

 V. Ad. sk. Cashmere {Belleiv). India Museum. 



to, X, y. Ad. sk. N.W. India. Capt. Staekhouse PiuwaU 



[P.]. 

 s. Ad. sk. Madras. T. C. Jerdon, Esq. [P.]. 



(Tvpe of H. inornata.) 

 a',b'. Ad. sk. Isilghiri HQls. W. Davison, Esq. [P.]. 



c',d'. Ad. sk. Nep;il. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]- 



(Types of H. rujncola.) 

 e',f. Ad. sk. Nepal (Hodr/son). India Museum. 



ff'. Ad. sk. Bootan (Ptmbertoii). India Museum. 



6. Cotile obsoleta. 



Cotyle rupestris (non Scop.'), Riipp. Si/st. Uebers. p. 22 (]84o'); 



Vierth. Xaum. 1855, p. 471; Heuql. Si/st. Uehers. p. 17 ; E. C. 



Taylor, Ibis, 1859, p. 47 ; Adams, Ibis, 1864, p. 14 ; Hartm. J.f.O. 



1864, p. 387 ; E. C. Taylor, Ibis, 1867, p. 57. 

 Cotyle obsoleta, Cab. Mits. Rein. Th. i. p. 50 (1850) ; Heuyl. Orn. 



N.O.-Afr. i. p. 16.3 (1869) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 301 ; Shelky, 



Ibis, 1871, p. 136 ; id. B. Egypt,^. 125 (1872) ; Blanf. Ibis, 1875, 



p. 214 ; Dresser, B. Eur. iii. p. 521, pi. 165 (1875) ; Antin. Mem. 



Sac. Geoc/r. Ital. i. p. 183 (1878) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. 



(2) i. p. 249 (1884) ; Murray, Vertebr. Faun. Sind, p. 104 (1884). 

 Cotyle cahirica, A. E. Brehm, J.f. 0. 1853, p. 452, et Exirah. p. 96 ; 



Blasius, Ibis, 1861, p. 295. 

 Cotyle cachirica, C. L. Brehm, Naum. 1855, p. 271. 

 Cotyle palustris (nee Staph.), Tristr. Ibis, 1867, p. 363 ; Wyatt, 



Ibis, 1870, pp. 2, 9, 12. 

 Cotyle paludicola [nee V.), Tristr. Ibis, 1869, p. 436. 

 Cotile obsoleta. Gray, Iland-l. B. i. p. 74, no. 876 (1869) ; Hume, 



Str. F. 1876, p. 40 ; Tristr. Faun. ^- Flor. Palest, p. 62 (1884). 

 Ptionoprogne pallida, Hume, Str. F. 1873, pp. 1, 417 j Blanf. Ibis, 



1873, p. 214. 

 Cotyle (I'tyonoprogne) obsoleta, Blanf. East. Pers. ii. p. 217 (1876). 

 Ptyonoprogne obsoleta, Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 84 ; Butler, Cat. B. 



Sind etc. p. 13 (1879). 



Adult. Above very pale greyish brown, dark on the head apd 

 nape ; ■wing-coverts and quills darker brown, with light edgings to 

 the feathers ; rump and upper tail- coverts very pale greyish brown ; 

 tail-feathers light greyish brown, with a white spot on the inner 

 web of aU the feathers except the two middle and the outer ones ; 

 chin whitish, unspotted ; throat and breast white, with a very 

 faint fulvous tinge ; under tail-coverts darker greyish brown, with 

 faint edgings of pale brown ; axiUaries pale brown ; under wing- 

 coverts a little darker brown, with rufescent margins ; bill dark 

 brown ; feet light brown . Total length 5 inches, culm en 0*35, 

 wing 4-5, tail 2*1, tarsus 0-4. 



