HIRUNDO SENEGALENSIS, L. 



GREAT AFRICAN MOSQUE-SWALLOW. 



Hirondelle a ventre roux de Senegal, Daubent. PL Enl. vii. pi. 310. 



Hirundo senegalensis, Linn. Syst. ]S T at. i. p. 345 (1766) ; Swains. B. W. Afr. ii. p. 72, 

 pi. 6 (1S37) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 58 (1845) ; id. Cat. Eissir. Brit. Mus. p. 23 

 (1848) ; Jard. Contr. Orn. 1849, p. 4 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 339 (1850) ; Hartl. Orn. 

 Westafr. p. 27 (1857); Dubois, Ois. Eur. pi. 35 (1862); Hartl. J. f. O. 1869, 

 p. 103 ; Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 69, no. 796 (1869) ; Heugl. Orn. A T .0.-Afr. i. p. 156 

 (1869) ; Sbarpe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 316 ; Sliarpe, Ibis, 1872, p. 71 ; Shelley & 

 Buckley, t. c. p. 288; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. iv. App. p. lvii (1874); Ussher, 

 Ibis, 1874, p. 62 ; Reicben. Corresp. Afrik. Gesellscb. Berlin, 1875, no. 178 ; id. 

 J. f. O. 1875, p. 21 ; Sbarpe & Bouv. Bull. Soc. Zool. Erance, i. p. 37 (1876) ; 

 He R,ocbebr. Eaun. Seneg., Ois. p. 219 (1884) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. 

 (2), i. p. 120 (18S4); Sbarpe, Cat. Birds in Brit. Mus. x. p. 108 (1885). 



Hirundo rufula, Gould, B. Eur. ii. pi. 55 (1837, nee Ternm.). 



Cecropis senegalensis, Less. Compl. Buff. viii. p. 498 (1837) ; Boie, Isis, 1814, 

 p. 174; Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 22 (1845) ; Cass. Cat. Hirund. Mus. Pbilad. Acad, 

 p. 3 (1853) ; Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 16 (1856) ; Bouvier, Cat. Ois. Marche 

 &c. p. 9. 



Hirundo melanocrissus (nee Riipp.), Heugl. J. f. O. 1862, p. 297. 



Cecropis melanocrissus, Antin. Cat. descr. Ucc. p. 25 (1865) ; Salvad. Atti R. Accad. 

 Torino, 1870, p. 728. 



H. uropygio rufo ; pileo dorso concolori; subtus unicolor, gukl albida; rectricibus non minimi albo 

 maculatis. 



Hab. in Africa occidentali et in Africa septentrionali-oricntali. 



Above purplish blue; sides of tbe bead and back of the neck, almost forming a nucbal collar, as well as 

 tbe entire rump, deep sienna ; quills dull black slightly glossed with blue ; upper tail-coverts dull 

 purplish blue ; tail-feathers black, unspotted ; throat and cheeks buffy white, as also are the under 

 wing-coverts ; rest of the underparts deep chestnut ; bill black ; feet very dark brown. Total 

 length 9 inches, wing 5 - 7, tail 4 - 2. 



We have not seen any indications of an approach to H. monteiri, though both this species and H. sene- 

 galensis occur on the Congo. The specimen of H. senegalensis from Landana, in Capt. Shelley's 

 collection, is rather whiter on the throat than others from the Gold Coast, and thus somewhat 



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