COTYLE. lOo 



Hah. — Throughout India and Cashmere ; also Beloochistan (Quetta), 

 and Afghanistan. In Sind it arrives about the latter end of July, and 

 breeds in the Province. All the nests, taken by myself and Lieut. 

 Henry Barnes, were in July and August, and a few in September.' It 

 builds a shallow cup or saucer-shaped nest of clay, lined with feathers, 

 generally under bridges and culverts, and on the Indus, under the 

 stern of the flat-buttomed barges lying unused. Eggs 2 — 4, white, 

 speckled all over with rusty or brick-red. 



Hirundo daurica, Linn. S. N. i. p. 702, Naum. vogt. t. 383, p. 4; 

 Gould. B. As. pi. 51 ; Minrny, Hdbk., Zooh, Sfc, Sivd, p. 122;Jerd. B. 

 Ind. p. 160. Hirundo rufula. Tern. Man. d'Orn. ed. ii. pt. iii. p. 298. 

 Hirundo erythropygia, Sykes ; Str. P. v. 255. HirUndo alpestris, 

 Pallas. Zoogr. i. pi. 30. — The Red-rumped Swallow. 



Above blue-black; sides of the head, supercilium, behind the ear- 

 coverts, and rump chestnut; under parts rufescent white, with dusky 

 streaks ; under tail-coverts tipped broadly on the terminal half with 

 black. 



Length. — 7'5 inches, wing 4"5, tail 4. 



Hab. — All over India to Nepaul, Himalayas, Siberia, N. B. Asia, 

 Persia, Beloochistan and Afghanistan. In Ceylon rarely. Occurs in 

 the Deccan, Kutch, Kattiawar, Eajputana and N. Guzerat; also the 

 Punjab, N. W. Provinces, Oudh, Bengal, Central and'Southern India. 

 In Sind it visits us during winter. 



Gen. Cotyle. — Boie. 



Bill flat; nostrils prominent; tail moderate, slightly forked; tarsi 

 scaled and slender. 



Cotyle riparia, Liim.; P. C. 523; Kanm. vogt.t. 146, 3, 4; Gould. 

 B. Eur. -pl.bl ; Audubon Birds Amer. ^\. 50 ■ Jerd . Ii. hid. p. 163, No. 87; 

 Str. F. i. 164; iii. 452; iv. 507; Murray, Hdbk., Zool, Sfc, Sind, 

 p. 123.— The European Sand Martin. 



Head and body brown or dusky greyish brown; wings and tail 

 sooty black ; under surface white, except a brown band across the 

 upper part of the chest ; bill black; legs and feet horny; irides hazel. 



Length.— To end of outer tail feathers 4-75, wing 4, tail 2, tarsus 

 at back feathered to the hind toe. 



HaS.— Central India, Kutch, the Punjab, Beloochistan (Quetta), 

 Persia and Afghanistan. It is widely spread throughout Europe, Asia, 

 and Africa. In Europe and Northern Asia it breeds in holes, in river 

 banks. In Sind it is a winter visitant. 



Cotyle sinensis, Gray, III. Ind. Zool. i. pi. 35, f. 3; Jerd. B. Ind. 

 i 164 No 89; Str. F. iii. 42; id. vi. 45; Murray, Edbh.,Zool., ^'c, Sind, 

 p. ] 23'. Hirundo brevicaudata, McClell.—TjiE Indian Bank Martin. 



^t7 i(Z< —Above dusky greyish brown, darker on the crown; throat 

 and breast pale grey ; wings and tail dusky brown ; belly and lower 

 tail-coverts white ; upper tail-coverts albescent ; tarsus with a small tutt. 



