360 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
“beak and legs black; iris dark hazel” (T. E. Buckley). Total 
length, 6 inches; of wing, 4°8 ; tail, 2-0. 
Young.—Similar to the adult, but has the plumage somewhat 
darker ; rump very pale brown with a light rufous tinge; the whole 
of the upper surface, quills, and the band on the breast with rusty 
edgings to the feathers; bill dark horny brown; feet brown. Total 
length, 6 inches ; wing, 4°7; tail, 2:0. 
Fig. Buff. Pl. Enl. 728. 
345. CoryLE FULIGULA. Buff-throated Sand Martin. 
This Swallow remains with us all the year round, merely shifting 
its quarters from a town toa country residence. As soon as our 
summer visitants are gone, these crowd into the villages and take 
their places. We. have counted upwards of one hundred sitting 
together on the cornices of the Dutch Church in Cape Town on a 
cold day, basking in the sun. They breed in the mountains, and 
seem generally distributed, as we have received specimens from 
Damaraland, Swellendam, Beaufort, and Colesberg, and Victorin 
procured it at the Knysna. We have also found them nesting under 
the eaves of houses in November. They lay 3 or 4 eggs, of a 
creamy white, much spotted with brown, with here and there a grey 
patch ; in some these spots seem to form a circle at the obtuse end: 
axis, 10”; diameter, 6”. The flight of this species is very slow 
and sailing, and they seek their prey usually near rocks, and are 
more crepuscular in their habits than any of our other species, often 
flying so far into the darkening twilight, that they can scarcely be 
distinguished from the bats with which they mingle. Mr. H. Jack- 
son writes from Nel’s Poort, 4th January, 1869 :—“ We have taken 
the eggs of a pair of brown martins five times this season. They 
have their nest against the gable of my house and do not forsake it 
when robbed, as do the Chats and others,’ Mr. Thomas Ayres in 
his paper on the birds of the Lydenburg district writes :—* Though 
I have seen this Martin in other parts of the Transvaal, I shot 
specimens for the first time at the gold-fields. They came in the 
autumn and winter months, but were not in such numbers as the 
two preceding species.” Mr. Andersson writes :—* This Martin is 
common in Damara and Great Namaqua Land, and is the only species 
of Swallow which remains throughout the year, a few couples being 
always to be found in suitable localities, L.once saw a very large 
