COTILE OBSOLETA, Cab. 



PALE ROCK-MARTIN. 



Cotijle rupestris (non Scop.), Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 22 (1845); Vierth. Xaum. IS.j.j, 

 p. 471 ; Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 17 ; E. C. Taylor, Ibis, 1859, p. 47 ; Adams, Ibis, 

 1864, p. 14; Hartm. J. f. O. 1864, p. 387 ; E. C. Taylor, Ibis, 1867, p. 57. 



Cotyle ohsoleta. Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 50 (1850) ; Heugl. Oru. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 168 

 (1869); Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 301; Shelley, Ibis, 1871, p. 136; id. B. Egypt, 

 p. 123 (1872) ; Blanf. Ibis, 1873, p. 214 ; Dresser, B. Eur. iii. p. 521, pi. 165 

 (1875). 



Cotyle cahirica, A. E. Brehm, J. f. O. 1853, p. 452, et Extrah. p. 96 ; Blasius, Ibis, 

 1861, p. 295. 



Cotyle cachii'ica, C. L. Brehm, Naum. 1855, p. 271. 



Cotyle iKihistri^i (nee Steph.), Tristr. Ibis, 1867, p. 363 ; Wyatt, Ibis, 1870, pp. 2, 

 9, 12. 



Cotyle paludicola (nee V.), Tristr. Ibis, 1869, p. 436. 



Cotlle obsoleta, Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 74, no. 876 (1869) ; Hume, Str. E. 1876, 

 p. 40 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds in Brit. Mus, x. p. Ill (1885) ; Yerbury, Ibis, 1886, p. 14. 



Ptionoprogne ijallkla, Hume, Str. E. 1873, pp. 1, 417; Blanf. Ibis, 1873, p. 214. 



Cotyle {Ftyonopjrogiie) ohsoleta, Blanf. East. Pers. ii. p. 217 (1870). 



Ftyonoprogue obsoleta, Hume, Str. E. 1879, p. 84 ; Butler, Cat. B. Siud »Scc. p. 13 

 (1879). 



C. minor, pallida ; rectricibus albo maculatis, duabus mediis et cxtimis cxceptis ; subcaudalibus saturate 

 brunneis; subtiis pallide isabelliua, abdomine saturatiorc bruimco ; gala hand maculata. 



Hub. in Africa scptentriouali-oricutali, in Arabia ct in Paht'stiua et per terras littorales Oceanic Iiidicii: 

 usque ad provdnciam Sindianam. 



Adult. Above very pale greyish brown, dark on the head and nape ; wing-covcrts and quills tlarkiT 

 brown, with light edgings to the feathers ; rump and upper tail-coverts very pale greyish brown ; 

 tail-feathers light greyish brown, with a white spot on the inner web of all the feathers cxeejit tin 

 two middle and the outer ones ; chin whitish, unspotted ; tlu'oat and breast white, with a very 

 faint fulvous tinge; under tail-coverts darker greyish brown, with faint edgings of pale brown ; 

 axillaries pale brown; under wing-coverts a little darker brown, with rufosccut margins: "hill 

 black; legs brown; iris dark brown" [G. E. Shclk'ij). Total length "i inehes, culmcu ();'i.">. 

 wing i'T), tail 2'1, tarsus 0' 1. 



