44 HIRUNDINID.E. 



Genus CHELIDON, F. Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 550. 



CheUdon = xeXiduv, a Swallow, in classical Greek ; cf. Hirundo, p. 42. 



Chelidon urbica. MARTIN. 



Hirundo ur bic a, Linnaeus, S. N. i. p, 34i (1766). 

 Hirundo urbica, Naum. vi. p. 75 ; Macg. iii. p. 573 ; Hewitson, 



p. 261; Yarr. ed. 2, ii. p. 245; id. ed. 3, ii. p. 255; 



Harting, p. 35. 

 Chelidon urbica, Gray, p. 35; Newton, ii. p. 349; Gould, ii. 



pi. 6; Dresser, iii. p. 495. 

 Martin, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 222. 



Urbica = found in cities, urbes. 



A summer visitant throughout the British Isles, excepting 

 the Outer Hebrides. It breeds in most parts of Europe and 

 North Africa, wintering south of Abyssinia. 



Genus COTILE, F. Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 550. 



Cotile, from /comXas = the twitterer, a peculiar poetical feminine of iram'Xos 

 = prattling ; it occurs in Anacreon, fr. 99, as the Boeotian name for the Swallow. 

 Cf. H. T. Wharton, Ibis, 1879, p. 451. 



Cotile riparia. SAND-MARTIN. 



Hirundo riparia, Linnaeus, S. N. i. p. 344 (1766). 



Hirundo riparia, Naum. vi. p. 100; Macg. iii. p. 595 ; Hewit- 

 son, p. 264; Yarr. ed. 2, ii. p. 251 ; id. ed. 3, ii. p. 261 ; 

 Harting, p. 35. 



Cotyle riparia, Gray, p. 34; Gould, ii. pis. 7, 8; Dresser, iii. 

 p. 505. 



Cotile riparia, Newton, ii. p. 355. 



Sand Martin, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 228. 



Eipdrla = that frequents river-banks, ripee. 



A summer visitant, breeding in every district except in 

 Shetland. It is found throughout the Palsearctic and Nearctic 

 Regions, wintering in Africa, India, and South America down 

 to Brazil. 



