5. HIRUNDO, 155 



Adult. Head and back of neck pale sienna ; back and scapulars 

 brij2;ht steel-blue ; ■wing-coverts duller steel-blue ; lower part of the 

 back and rump deep sienna ; quiUs brownish black glossed with 

 dull greenish blue ; tail-feathers brownish black, glossed above with 

 greenish steel-blue, all the feathers except the centre ones having a 

 large white spot on the inner web ; underneath fulvous white, pro- 

 fusely marked with broad longitudinal stripes of dark brown ; under 

 wing-coverts deeper fulvous ; bill black ; feet dark brown. Total 

 length 7'8 inches, culmen 0-3, wing 4-2, tail 4-8, tarsus 0-5. 



Young (type of H. korthalsi, Bp.). General colour above dull 

 blue-black ; wing-coverts and quills dusky blackish with a slight 

 gloss of blue-black, all the coverts and quills with an obsolete tip 

 of sandy rufous, much broader on the inner secondaries ; lower 

 back and rump pale rufous ; upper tail-coverts blue-black, with 

 sand}' rufous tips ; tail-feathers blackish, with a gloss of blue-black, 

 the outer feathers onh- a little elongated, the two outermost with a 

 long patch of white on the inner web ; crown of head dusky blackish, 

 with sandy margins to aU the feathers ; nape, hind neck, and sides 

 of neck pale sandy rufous ; lores ashy : sides of face and ear-coverts 

 dull sandy rufous ; cheeks and under surface of body whitish, 

 broadly streaked with dusky blackish on the throat and breast, the 

 streaks becoming much narrower on the abdomen and being absent 

 on the under tail-coverts, which are entirely white ; flanks and 

 sides of body washed with pale sandy rufous ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries uniform pale sandy rufous, the small coverts near the 

 edge of the wing mottled with blackish bases ; quUls dusky below, 

 more ashy along the inner web. Total length 5 inches, culmen 0'3, 

 wing 3"85, tail 2-2, tarsus 0-45. (Mus Lugd.) 



Hah. North-eastern and Eastern Africa ; West Africa, appa- 

 rently only found on the Gold Coast ; South Africa generally, 

 extending to the eastern districts of the Cape Colony. 



a. Ad. St. Abyssinia. Dr. Riippell [P.]. 



h. (5 ad. sk. SenafS, Abyssinia, May 21 Sharpe CoUectioii. 



(Jesse). 



c. Ad. sk. Rayrayguddy, Abyssinia, Sharpe Collection. 



May 27 (Jesse). 



d. $ ad sk. Dor.goio, Tigre, May 18. W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



e. tS ad. sk. Ankober, Abyssinia India Museum. 



{Ilanis). 



f. Juv. sk. West -Ifrica. F. D. Godman and 0. Sal- 



vin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



g, h. Ad. sk. Connor's Hill, Cape Coast Sharpe Collection. 



(Ussher). 

 t. Ad. i<k. Connor's Hill, Cape Coast Capt. Shelley [P.]. 



{Ussker). 

 A, /. cJ ad. sk. Landana, Congo, Jan. & Feb. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. fP 1 



(Z. Petit). -'■ 



m. Ad. sk. Beiiguela. J. J. Monteiro, Esq. [C."'. 



n. Ad. sk. KingwLlliamstown, S. Africa. Capt. II. Trevelyan "^ 



o. Ad. sk. Natal. Sharpe Collection. 



p. Jjuv.sk. Pinetown, Natal, March 14 Sharpe Collection. 



( T. L. Ay res). 



