HIRUNDO GRISEOPYGA, .%»*.. 



BROWN-HEADED SWALLOW. 



Sirimdo ffriseojri/ga, Sundev. CEfv. Jv. Vet.-Akad. Forh. Stoek. 1850, p. 107 ; Layard, 



B. S. Afr. p. 55 (18G7) ; Gray, Haud-1. B. i. p. 71, no. 833 (18G9) ; Sharpc, P.Z. S. 



1870, p. 313 ; Bocage, Orn. Angola, p. 5iG (1881) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 2(50 ; 



Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. pp. 368, 841 (1882-84) ; id. Cat. Bii-ds in Brit. 



Mns. X. p. 152 (1885). 

 Atticora melhina, J. Verr. E,ev. et Mag. de Zool. 1851, p. 310; Strickl. Contr. Orn. 



1851, p. 163; Cass. Cat. Hirund. Mus. Philad. Acad. p. 6 (1853); Ilartl. J. f. 0. 



1853, p. 398; id. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 25 (1-.57) ; Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. Is5<). 



p. 33 ; Hartl. J. f. 0. 1861, p. 103 ; Forbes, Ibis, 1883, p. 511. 

 Hirundo melhina, Strickl. Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 131; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. T'l. 



no. 824 (1869). 

 Atticora cypseloides, Heugl. J. f. O. 1862, p. 297, 1864, p. 276. 

 Atticoi^a gr'iMopyga, Heugl. Orn. X.O.-Afr. i. p. 119, tal). vii. (1869); Sliarpe, Ibis, 



1870, p. 428. 

 Hirundo cypseloides. Gray, Haud-1. B. i. p. 70, no. 826 (1869); Boiicard, Cat. A v. 



p. 334 (1875). 

 Fsalidoprocne melhina, Bo\ivicr, Cat. Ois. &c. Marche, p. 9 (1875). 

 Hirundo poucheti, Petit, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, viii. p. xliii (1883). 



H. pilco et uropygio bruiincis facile distinguenda. 



Hub. in Africa occidentaH, racridionali-orieutali ct scptentriouali-oriciitali. 



Adult. General colour above glossy blue-black, tbe mantle varied with white hascs to the fi-atIi(T> ; 

 lower back, rump, and upper tail-covcrts brown, contrasting with the back ; wing-eovci-ts lMossv 

 blue-black like the back; quills black, externally glossy blue-black; tail-i'iiitlikis liluc-hla.k 

 towards their ends, hut more or less washed witli hrown t(i\iariN t1ic has( ; ciiliic luad and n.-ipc 

 brown, with a slight hluish gloss; lores dusky l)lackish, surmounlcd hy a line of iioary fcallicrs ; 

 sides of face and ear-covcrts brown ; checks and under surface of hody satiny white, with a sliirht 

 fulvous tbige on the throat; the flanks, thighs, and lateral under tail-covcrts sli-jitly wa^iicd nltli 

 hrown; under wing-coverts hrow n, edged \\ ii li white ; (iiillls dusky hclow, hrownish .along tin- 

 inner web: "bill blackish; feet dusky ashy; iris dusky'' (/''//' n<ii;//i!i\ . Tola! length :>-7 

 inches, cidmen 0-.3, wing 3-8, tail Iti."), outer leather :5'1, tarsus D-.'i. 



Yoinif/. Dill'ers from the adult in having narrow edgings of pale reddish hrown to the feathers of the 

 hack and wing-C'overts, and in having the throat and foi-c neck reddish hull'. 



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