COTILE FULIGULA [LkJd.). 



RUEOUS-XnP.OATED ROCK-MxiP.TIN. 



VKiroiulelle fmwe, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. v. p. 156, pi. 2JtC ; Siindev. Krit. Framst., 

 Levaill. p. 52 (1857). 



Hirundo fiiUgula, Liclit. in Forst. Descr. Anim. p. 55 (1841) ; Grill, Zool. Anteckn. 

 p. 36 (1858). 



Sinmdo hyemalis, Forster, Descr. Anim. p. 55 (1841). 



Cotyle fuligula, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. CO (1845) ; id. Cat. Fissir. Brit. Mus. p. 29 

 (1848) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 342 (1850) ; Cab. Mus. Heiu. Th. i. p. 164 (1850) ; 

 Hartl. J. f. 0. 1861, p. 103 ; Gurney, Ibis, 1865, p. 264 ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 57 

 (1867); Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 299 (pt.) ; id. Cat. Afr. B. p. 45 (1871) ; Shelley, 

 Ibis, 1875, p. 68 ; Ayres, Ibis, 1876, p. 424, 1878, p. 407, 1879, p. 291 ; Salvin, 

 Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 158 (1882) ; Butler, Feilden, & Reid, Zool. 1882, p. 250 : 

 Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 360 (1883). 



Cotile fuligula, Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 73, no. 874 (1869) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. 

 S. Afr. p. 840 (1884) ; id. Cat. Birds in Brit. Mus. x. p. 106 (1885). 



C major ; rectricibus albo maculatis ; subcaudaUbus saturate brunneis ; gul;1 et prtepectore clare 

 rufcsceutibus. 



Hab. in Africa meridionali. 



Adult male. General colour above dark sooty brown, the bead sligbtly more dusky than the back ; wiug- 

 coverts and quills darker brown than the back, the inner greater coverts and scapulars of the 

 same sooty brown as the back ; tail-feathers dark brown, all but the two centre feathers and the 

 outermost with a large round white spot on the inner web ; lores blackish ; ear-coverts and sides 

 of neck dark sooty brown like the back ; thi'oat and breast tawny rufous, extending over the 

 abdomen ; sides of breast, flanks, abdomen, and under tail-eovcrts dark sooty brown ; axiliarics 

 and under wing-coverts rufous, with sooty-brown bases, causing a mottled apjicarance near the 

 edge of the wing ; quills sooty brown below, paler along the inner web : " bill black ; legs 

 brown; iris brown" (7". L. Ayres). Total length 5 inches, cuhncn O'l, wing "rOo, tail '^'1, 

 tarsus 0"15. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour. Total length o^l inches, eulmen ()-|, wing 5, tail .'J'lf), 

 tarsus 0'45. 



Youn(j. Only differs from the adtdt in having rufous edgings to the feathers of the uii]iit parts, lower 

 abdomen, and under tail-coverts. 



Hub. South Africa, from the Cape Colony to Xatal and llie Transvaal. 



