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of the feathers very broad and plain, but thicker and not giving such a 
striped appearance in the adult ; bill dark brown; legs flesh-colour. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Layard); Natal (Jardine); Transvaal (Ayres); 
Mossamedes (Sala, Mus. Lugd.) ; Huilla (.duchieta). 
20. HiruNDO PUELLA. 
Hirundo puella, Temm. in Faun. Japon. Aves, p. 33 (1842, deser. 
orig.); Heugl. Orn. N.-O. Afr. p. 160 (1869); Grav, Hand-l. of B. 
i. p. 69 (1869); Finsch & Hartl. Orn. Ostafr. p. 160 (1870). 
Hirundo abyssinica, Guér. Rev. Zool. 1843, p. 322 (deser. orig.) ; 
id. in Ferr. et Gal. Voy. en Abyss. iii. p. 240, t. 1U (1847); Des 
Murs in Lefebvr. Voy. Abyss. Zool. p. 77 (1845) ; Gray, Gen. of B. 
i. p. 58 (1845); Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 340 (1850); Hartl. 
Journ. f. Orn, 1853, p. 399, et 1855, p. 360; Mill. Journ. f. Orn. 
1855, p. 4; Hartl. Orn. Westafr. p. 28 (1857), et Journ. f. Orn. 
1861, p. 103; Kirk, Ibis, 1864, p. 320. 
Cecropis abyssinica, Cass. Cat. Hirnnd. Phil. Acad. p. 3 (1853) ; 
Brehm, Reise nach Habesch, p. 209 (1863). 
Cecropis striolata, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 18, t. 6 (1845, deser. 
orig. ). 
Dictnits striolata, Gray, Cat. Fiss. Brit. Mus. p. 23 (1848); 
Jard. Contr. to Orn. 1848, p. 4; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Birds Mus. 
E.-I. Co. i. p. 94 (1854). 
Head and back of neck pale sienna; back and scapulars brig!it 
steel-blue ; wing-coverts duller steel-blue; lower part of the back 
and rump deep sienna; quills brownish black, glossed with du'l 
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. 
Hab. North-Eastern Africa (Heuglin); Fantee (Gordon); Rio 
Boutry (Pe/); Ashantee (Mus. Brit.). 
Compared with H. cucullata, the present bird is much smaller 
and more slender, the head and rump are darker sienna, and the 
breast is much more thickly striped than in the southern species. 
The Tables herewith appended will give some idea of the geogra- 
phical distribution of Swallows throughout the Ethiopian region ; 
-and it is worth noting that the curious representation of a species by 
one or more subspecies or races, so well known to every student of 
African ornithology, was never more fully elucidated than in the genus 
Hirundo as exhibited throughout the Ethiopian region. Thus— 
Hirundo albogularis has its representative H. ethiopica. 
H. dimidiata + = KA H. leucosoma. 
Hi. melanocrissa £ 3 * HI. domicella. 
HI. senegalensis 2 = HH. monteiri. 
HI, semirufa as of a H. gordoni. 
H. cucullata oe ms re HM. puella. 
