5. HIRUNDO. 153 



Afr. i. p. 162 (1869) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 318 ; id. Cat. Afr. 

 B. p. 46 (1871) ; Giu-ney, in Anderss. B. Barn. Ld. p. 50 (1872); 

 Ayres, Ibis, 1873, p. 281 ; Shdley, Ibis, 1875, p. Q7 ; Ayres, Ibis, 

 1870, p. 424; Bocage, Orn. Angola, p. 183 (1881); Sharpe, in 

 Oates's Mataheh Land, App. p. 311 (1881) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1882, 

 p. 260; Salcin, Cat. StricM. Cull. p. 149 (1882) ; Butler, Feilden, 

 §• Reid, Zool. 1882, p. 251 ; Holub ^' Von Pelz. Beitr. Orn. Siidafr. 

 p. 58 (1882) ; Sharpe, ed. Layards B. S. Afr. p. 370 (1882). 



Hiruudo c.ipeusis, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 1019 (1788, ex Daubent.); 

 Bp. Consp. i. p. 339 (1850) ; Grill, Zool. Anteckn. p. 34 (1858) ; 

 Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 54 (1867) ; Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. 1868, p. 47. 



Cecropis capensis, Boie, Isis, 1826, p. 971, 1844, p. 174 ; Cab. Mus. 

 Hein. Th. i. p. 47 (1850). 



Hirundu rufula ?, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 198 (1849). 



Cecropis cucullata, Cass. Cat. Hirund. Mus. Philad. Acad. p. 3 (1853). 



Lillia capensis, Boie, Isis, 1858, p. 364, 



Adult. Head intense sienna, the base of the feathers blue-black, 

 showing occasionally a few markings of this coloui- on the crown ; 

 upper part of the back and scapulars glossy purplish blue, marked 

 with white in the extreme upper part of the neck, this appearance 

 being caused by the whitish edging to the feathers when they are 

 disarranged; wing-coverts like the back, the edge of the wing 

 marked with white, especially on the primary-coverts, all of which 

 are edged with white ; quills brownish black, lighter on the inner 

 web, washed externally with dark greenish steel-blue ; lower part 

 of the back pale sienna, much paler on the upper tail-coverts, where 

 it is nearly white, the outermost upper tail-coverts being steel-blue ; 

 tail brownish black, glossed with dark greenish steel-blue, the 

 middle feathers without any white spot on the inner web, the next 

 two on each side with a small white spot on the inner web, and so 

 on till the last, which has a very large white spot ; under surface 

 of body fulvous white, the shaft of each feather strongly marked 

 •with brown, these shaft-stripes being very small on the "throat and 

 cheeks ; the sides of the body washed with pale sienna ; under tail- 

 coverts white, vrith very distinct shaft-stripes : " bill black ; feet 

 brown; iris brown" (Shelley). Total length 7-8 inches, cuhnen 

 0-35, wing 5-1, tail 4-1, tarsus 0-6. 



Young. Head dark brownish sienna, very pale on the sides of the 

 neck, the base of the feathers conspicuously showing, so that a 

 quantity of blue-black diamond-shaped marks appear on the head; 

 back and scapulars steel-blue, with the white edgings to the feathers 

 showing conspicuously on the upper part of the back; wing- 

 coverts blackish brown, edged at the tip with pale sienna ; quills 

 blackish brown, glossed with deep greenish steel-blue, the secon- 

 daries tipped with pale sienna ; rump pale sienna, the white edging 

 to the rump not very distinct, the shafts of all the feathers clearly 

 defined ; the blue upper tail-coverts edged with sienna ; tail 

 blackish brown, glossed above with deep greenish steel-blue, the 

 outer feathers not very long, but having the white spot on the inner 

 ■web very large, as in the adult, decreasing in size as it approaches 

 the two centre feathers, which are unspotted ; under surface of the 



