COTILE PALUDICOLA [Tieiu.]. 



SOUTH-AFRICAN SAND-MAUTIN. 



Hirondelle des Ilarais ou la Brunette, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. v. p. 158, pi. 21G. fig. 2 

 (1806). 



E-irundo paludicola, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Xat. xiv. p. 511 (1817) ; [Gueriii in 

 Eerr. et Gal. Voy. Abyss, iii. p. 242 ; Des Murs in Lefcbvre Voy. Abyss, p. 7'J 

 (1847) ;] Grill, Zool. Anteekii. pp. 10, 36 (1858). 



nintiido 2K(lasl)'ls, Stepb. Gea. Zool. x. p. 101 (1817). 



(Jotyle imhullhida, lliipp. Neue Wirb. p. 106 (1835) ; id. Syst. Uebcrs. p. 22 (1845) ; 

 Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 17 (1856). 



Cotyle palustris, Cab. Mus. Hciu. Tb. i. p. 49 (1850) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 34 (1850) ; 

 Cass. Cat. Himnd. Mus. Pbilad. Acad. p. 11 (1853); Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 58 

 (1867); Gurney, Ibis, 1868, p. 464; Ayres, Ibis, 1876, p. 421. 



Cotyle cdbivcntris, Liclit. Nomencl. Av. p. 61 (1854). 



Cotyle p(du,dicola, Sundev. Krit. Eramst., Levaill. p. 52 (1857) ; Ileugi. Ibis, lb59, 

 p. 339 (pt.); Kirk, Ibis, 1864, p. 326; Gurney, t. c. p. 347; Heugd. Orn. N.O.- 

 Afr. i. p. 167 (1869, pt.); Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 302 ; id. Cat. Afr. B. p. 45 

 (1871); Ayres, Ibis, 1874, p. 102; Buekley, t. c. p. 375; Slielley, Ibis, 1875, 

 p. 68 ; Butler, Feilden, & Ileid, Zool. 1882, p. 251 ; Sbarpe, ed. Layard's B. S. 

 Afr. pp. 361, 840 (1883) ; Scebobm, Ibis, 1887, p. 3 13. 



Cotile indudlcola. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 74, no. 877 (1869) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1880, 

 p. 260 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds in Brit. Mus. x. p. 102 (1885). 



C. miuor : cauda hand albo maculata : subcaudalibus albis : torque prrepcctorali nulla: gutturc ct (icc- 

 tore brunncis, coucoloribus. 



Halt, in Africa, mcridionali. 



Adult. General colour above uniform brown ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and ^\n\\\> daik brown, 

 the inner secondaries edged with lighter brown ; tail-feathers dark brown ; lores dusky brnwn ; 

 cheeks, throat, and breast brown, with a slight hoary shade on tlic throat ; sides of tin- body 

 brown like the breast; centre of abdomen, lower flanks, and uiulir tail-eoverts white; thiglis 

 brown; axillaries and nnder wing-covcrts brown, the coverts near the edge of tlie wing edged 

 with whitish ; quills dusky below : "bill and feet black; iris dark hazel" [^K. liiickUij). To'.al 

 length 4-8 inches, eulmen 0-3, wing tl."), tail ~'-'5, tai-sus ()• I,";. 



In Capt. Shelley's collection is a spceimeii killed b_\ hiniMJf in the Cape Colony wliii'h lias the \\\m\c 

 under surface brown, ineluding the under tad-eoverts. A like speeiuien, but rather darker on the 



