HIRUNDO CUCULLATA, Bo<m. 



LAEGE EUFOUS-HEADED SWALLO^V. 



Sironclelle a tete rousse cln Cap de Bonne Ks]K'runcc, Daubeiit. PI. Enl. 72:5. fii^. 2. 

 Rirundo cucuUala, Bodd. Taljl. PL Eul. p. 15 (1783, ex Daubent.) ; Gray, Gen. B. 



i. p. 58 (lSi5j; id. Cat. FiSsir. Brit. Mus. p. 23 (181-8); Jard. Ediiib. New 



Philos. Journ. u. ser. iii. p. 241 (185G) ; Gray, Haud-1. B. i. p. 09, no. 795 (1SG9) ; 



Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 162 (1869) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 318 ; id. Cat. Afr. 



B. p. 46 (1871) ; Gurney, in Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 50 (1872) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1873, 



p. 281; Shelley, Ibis, 1875, p. 67; Ayres, Ibis, 1876, p. 121; Bocaije, Orn. 



Angola, p. 183 (1881); Sharpe, in Oates's Matabcle Land, Ap^). p. 311 (1881) ; 



Shelley, Ibis, 18S2, p. 260; Salvin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 119 (1882); Butler, 



Feilden, & Beid, Zool. 1882, p. 251 ; Holub & Von Pelz. Beitr. Orn. Siidafr. p. 58 



(1882) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. pp. 370, 811 (1882) ; id. Cat. l?irds in 



Brit. ^lus. X. p. 152 (1885). 

 Sirundo ccq)ensis, Gra. Syst. Xat. i. p. 1019 (1788, ex Daubent.); I?p. Coiisp. i. 



p. 339 (1850); Grill, ZooL Anteckn. p. 31 (1858); Layard, B. S. Afr. j). 51 



(1867); Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. 1868, p. 17. 

 Cecropis ca pens is, Hoie, Isis, 1826, p. 971, 1814, p. 174; Cal). Mus. Ileiu. Th. i. 



p. 47 (1850). 

 Hirimdo rufala'^, Blytli, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 198 (1819). 

 Cecropis cucullata, Cass. Cat. Hiruud. Mus. Philad. Acad. p. 3 (^lb53). 

 Lillia capensis, Boie, Isis, 1858, p. 364. 



H. uropygio nifo; pileo rufo ; ala 51 ; sul)tiis nigro auguste striolata. 

 Hub. in Africa mcridionali. 



Adult. Head intense sienna, the liase of the I'eatliers l)lnc-hhick, showing neeasionally a few in:irkings of 

 tljis colour on the crown; iqipcr part of the l)ack and scapuhirs glossy jnirplish lihie, marked with 

 white in the extreme upper part of tlie neck, tliis a])pearaMce being eau.-ed hy the wliitish (dging 

 to the feathers wlien they are disarranged ; wing-coverts like the hack, the edge of the wing 

 marked witli white, especially on the |]rimai-y-eoverts, all cd' which arc cdg((l «ilh \\liitc ; tpiill.t 

 brownish black, lighter on the inner web, washed externally with dark greenish stccl-l)luc ; lower 

 part of the back i)ale sienna, much paler on the >ip]ier tail-covcrls, where it is nearly white, the 

 outermost tipper tail-eoverts being stecl-bhu'; tail brownish black, glossi-d \\\{\\ dark greenish 

 steel-blue, the middle i'eatliers willioul any uliite spot on the inner web. the mxt t»o <in rai li 

 side with a small white spot on the inner web, and so on idl the last, which h.is a very large 

 white spot; under surface of body fulvous white, the shaft of each feather strongly marked with 

 browiij these shaft-stripes being very small on the throat and cheeks ; tiic sides of tiie ixKly h ashed 



