154 HIEFNDrSIDiK. 



body -white tinged with fulvous, deepest on the flanks and abdomen ; 

 the shafts of the feathers very broad and jilain, but thicker and not 

 giving such a striped appearance in the adult ; bill daik brown ; 

 legs flesh-colour. 



Hah. South Africa, throughout the Cape Colony to jS^atal and the 

 Transvaal, occurring on the western side of the continent in Damara 

 Land and Mossamedes. 



a. Juv. sk. South Africa (Siirtees). Sliarpe Collection. 



b, c. Ad. sk. Cape Colony (Lay ant). Sharps Collection. 



d. Ad. sk. Kiugwilliamstown. Capt. Trevelyan [P.]. 



e. 2 ad. sk. Piuetown, Natal, March 19 Sharpe Collection. 



(r.L.Ayres). 



f. Ad. sk. Natal. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 

 ff, h. (S 2 fid. sk. Transvaal {T.L. Ayres). Sharpe Collection. 



i S ad. sk. Tati, Matabele Land, W. E. and C. G. Gates, 



Get. 4 (F. Oatcs). Esqrs. [P.]. 



k. 2 ad.sk. Gtjiiubinque, Damara Land, Sharpe Collection. 



Oct. 1 {AnderssuH). 



I. Ad.sk. Otjimbinque, Damara Land, Sharpe Collection. 



Nov. 28 {Andersson). 



17. Hirundo puella. 



Hirundo puella, Temm. 8f Schl. in Faun. Japan., Aves, p. 33 (1842); 



Sew/I. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. ICO (1869); Gray, Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 69, no. 797 (1869) \ Finsch Sf Hartl. Voq. Ostafr. p. 160 (1870) ; 



S/iarjje, P. Z. S 1870, p. 319 ; id. Ibis, 1870, p. 479 ; Layard, 



Ibis, 1870, p. 229; Blanf. Geol. ^- Zool. Abyss, p. 346 (1870); 



Finsch, Trans. Z. S. vii. p. 218 (1870) ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. 



p. 47, no. 441 (1871); id. Ibis, 1871, p. 479; Shelley ^Buckley, 



Ibis, 1872, p. 288 ; Antin. Sf Sakad. Ucc. Bogus, p. 73 (1873) ; 



Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 713; Ussher, Ibis, 1874, p. 63; Ecichen. 



C'orresp. Afrik. Gesellsnh. 1875, p. 178 ; Sharpe ^- Bouv. Bull. Soc. 



Zool. France, i. p. 38 (1876) ; Cab. J. f. 0. 1878, p. 222 ; Fisch. ^ 



Meichen. t. c. p. 257 ; Fisch. t. c. p. 280 ; id. ibid. 1879, p. 344 ; 



Sharpe, in Oates's Matabele Land, App. p. 311 (1881); Shelley, 



P. Z. S. 1881, p. 565 ; Bocat/e, Orn. Angola, p. 184 (1881) ; Shelley, 



Ibis, 1882, p. 260; Sharpe, k. Layard' s B. S. Afr. p. 373 (1882) ; 



Salvad. A7in. Mus. Civic. Genov. (2) i. p. 121 (1884) ; Arjres, Ibis, 



1884, p. 228. 

 Hirundo abyssinica, Gicer. Pev. Zool. 1843, p. 322; id. in Ferr. et 



Gal. Voy'. en Abyss, iii. p. 240, 1. 10 (1847) ; Des Murs in Lefebvr. 



Voy. Abyss., ZmI. p. 77 (1845) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 58 (1845) ; 



Bp. Consp. i. p. 340 (1850); Hartl. J. f. O. 1853, p. 399, & 



1855, p. 360 ; id. Orn. Westafr. p. 28 (1857) ; id. J. f. 0. 1861, 



p. 103 ; Kirk, Ibis, 1864, p. 320. 

 Cecropis striolata, IlUpp. Syst. Uebers. p. 18, t. 6 (1845). 

 Hirundo sti-iolata, Gray, Cat. Fissir. Brit. Mus. p. 23 (1848) ; Jard. 



Contr. Orn. 184S, p." 4; Horsf. (^ Moore, Cat. Birds Mm. E.I. 



Co. i. p. 94 (1854). 

 Hirundo korthalsi, Bp. Consp. i. p. 340 (1850) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. 



i. p. 69, no. 800 (1869). 

 Cecropis abvssinica, Cass. Cat. Hirund. Mus. Phil. Acad. p. 3 (1853) ; 



Brehm, Reise naeh Hahesch, p. 209 (1863). 

 Hirundo capensis, A. E. Brehm, J.f. 0. 1855, p. 492. 



