CHELIDONCOTILE 27 i 



399. BLACK-CHINNED MARTIN. 

 CHELIDOIST DASYPUS. 



Chelidon dasypus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 343 (1850) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. 

 x. p. 91 ; Seebohm, B. Jap. Emp. p. 144; C. blakestoni, Swinhoe y 

 P.Z.S. 1862, p. 320 ; id. Ibis, 1874, p. 152, pi. vii. fig. 1. 



IwamaJci-tsubame, Jap. 



<$ ad. (Japan). Differs from C. urbica in having the black carried down 

 much lower below the eye, and in having the chin black, the under parts 

 greyish white, and the tail nearly square. Culmen 0'32, wing 4'2, tail 1*9, 

 tarsus 0*45 inch ; outer rectrices barely 0'2 longer than the middle ones. 



Hal). Japan ; wintering in Borneo. 



In habits it agrees closely with its allies, and like them 

 builds a nest of mud, which it places under the eaves of a roof 

 or on ledges of cliffs, and deposits 4 to 5 pure white eggs which 

 are undistinguishable from those of C. urbica. 



COTILE, Boie, 1822. 



400. SAND-MARTIN. 

 COTILE RIP ARIA. 



Cotile riparia (Linn.), Syst. Nat. i. p. 344 (1766) ; (Wilson) Am. Orn. 

 v. p. 46, pi. 38, fig. 4 ; (Audub.) B. of Am. i. pi. 385 ; (Naum.) vi. 

 p. 100, Taf. 146, figs. 3, 4 ; (Gould) B. of E. ii. pi. 58 ; id. B. of 

 Gt. Brit. ii. pis. 7, 8; Hewitson, i. p. 264, pi. Ixv. fig. 1; 

 Newton, ii. p. 355 ; Dresser, iii. p. 505, pi. 163 ; Sharpe, Cat B. 

 Br. Mus. x. p. 96 ; Ridgw. p. 463 ; Saunders, p. 167 ; Lilford, ii. 

 p. 82, pi. 38. 



Hirondelle de rivage, French ; Pedreirinho, Portug. ; Gfolondrina 

 de ribera, Span. ; Topino, Ital. ; Uferschwalbe, German ; Zand- 

 zwaluw, Dutch ; Digesvale, Dan. ; Strandsvale, Norw. ; Backsvala, 

 Swed. ; Rantapaaskynen, Finn. ; Beregovoistricho'k, Russ. 



$ ad. (England). Upper parts hair-brown, rather paler on the rump 

 and darker on the crown ; wings and tail dark brown ; a brown band 

 across the upper breast, and flanks washed with pale brown ; rest of the 

 under parts white ; a small tuft of buffy feathers above the hind toe ; bill 

 black ; legs dark brown ; iris brown. Culmen 0*3, wing 3'95, tail 3'15, 

 tarsus 0*45 inch; tail forked, the outer rectrices 0'35 longer than the 



