5. HIRUXDO. 1 IT 



Hirundo sethiopica, Blanf. Ann. S{ Mar/. Nat. Hist. iv. p ?,=>Q ClSfiQ^ • 

 Gray, Hand-l. f • i- P- _401, no. 794a (1869) ; B/an^' Geol.\f Zool 

 Ahyss.y. ?A,, pi. 2 (1870) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. .309 • id Cat 



p. '? (lS/3); CaJ. ^^/. O. 1878, p. 223; Fischer 4' nlhen. to: 

 p. 2o7 ; lid. op. cit. 18/9, p. 344 ; Shelley, Ibis, 1883, p. 547. 



Adult Above purplish blue : forehead deep chestnut ; lores sooty 

 black ;_ cheeks dull black, slightly glossed with purplish blue; nuilk 

 brownish black, paler on the under surface, the upper surface glossed 

 with dark greenish steel-blue ; the inner cubital feathers marked 

 with a whitish spot on the inner web : tail blackish brown above 

 glossed with dark greenish steel-blue, all but the two central feathers 

 having an oblong white spot on the inner web ; under surface pearly 

 white with a crescent-shaped mark of purplish-blue feathers on each 

 side .of the upper part of the breast, not forming a complete band • 

 under tail-coverts white, some of the shafts conspicuously indicated' 

 and a small black spot on the outer web of some of the longest • bill 

 bkck ; feet dark brown. Total length 5 inches, wing 4-1° tail 9.5 

 Hah. A.E. Africa, extending down the east coast as far as 

 Mombas, re-occurrii.g on the west coast between Senegambia and 

 the JNiger. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Barak-it, Tigv6, May 1868. W. T. Blanford E.q 



I- Ad- 1- ^r ^^r' ^f ^->- sKieSLtioi"^"-^ 



c Ad. sk. \V bite ^ ,le ( B run- Roll et). Sharpe Collection. 



; ^ "i , ^^}^^^-}oom {Von Muller). Sharpe Collection. 



e,f. c^ad. sk. Mombasa Island. Mr. J. M. Hildebrandt 



rc 1 



h. c? ad. sk. Shonga, R. Niger. W. A. Forbes EsJ fP 1 



*. Juv. sk. Abeokuta (Robin). F. Nicholson, Esq.' \v\ 



k. Ad. sk. River Gambia {Layard). Sharpe Collection. 



9. Hirundo leucosoma. 



Hirundo leucosoma. Swains. B. W. Afr ii n 7Xn^'~>7\. v 

 P. Z. S18i3, p. 51 ; Gray, Gen. B. i'. p! 58 aS^)^'idkt^ 

 Brit. Mas. p. 24 (1848); Bp. Conm i n 339 nAm ^^i^' 



p. 103 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1869, p. 188 ; Gra^ Hand-l. B in 70 no' 

 frUl^'^l) 'J'""-^'"' ^- ^- ^'- IS'O, p. 309 ; id. Cat Afr V p 46 

 (18/1) ; Shelley 4- Buckley, Ibis, 1872, p. 288 ; Ussker, Ibis', 1874, 



Chelidon leucosoma, Boie, Isis, 1844, p. 171. 



Ilemicecrops leucosoma, Bp. Rivist. Contemp., Torino, 1857, p. 4, 



Aihdf Above dark glossy blue; a white longitudinal bar on the 

 wing, which is produced by the inner secondaries being for the most 

 part broadly edged externally with pure white; tail graduated dark 

 blue above, dusky beneath, all the feathers except the two middle 

 ones marked with white on the inner web, the exterior feathers 

 having a large oval spot, which gradually gets smaUer on the feathers 



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