124 BROWN-COLLARED SWALLOW. 



forehead and throat brow^n : the abdomen white, 

 spotted with brown : the quills dusky brown : in 

 other respects similar to the male. 



BROWN-COLLARED SWALLOW. 

 (Hirundo torquata.) 



Hi.Jusca subtus alba,fascia pectoralifemoribusque fuscis. 

 Brown Swallow, beneath white, with a band on the breast and 

 thighs brown. 



Hirundo torquata. GmeL Syst. Nat. 1. 1022. — Lath. Ind, Orn. 

 2. 579, 24. 



Hirondelle brune et blanche a ceinture brun. Buf, Hist. Nat, 

 Ois. 6. 680. 



Hirondelle brun a collier du Cap de Bonne Esperance. Buff. 



PL Enl. 723.y: 1. 

 L'Hirondelle fauve. Le Vail. Ois. d'Afric, 5. 156. jdI. ^4^6./. 1 ? 



male. 



Brown-collared Swallow. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 577. 26. 



Beak dusky 5 between which and the eye there 

 is a white spot : upper parts of the body, thighs, 

 and band on the breast, brown : under parts 

 white : tail not forked. Inhabits the Cape of 

 Good Hope. 



Le Vaillant mentions a bird that appears to be 

 a variety of this species : it has the upper part of 

 the head, the neck, the shoulders, back, rump, 

 upper tail-coverts, and the tail itself of a reddish 

 yellow colour, but the feathers of the latter, with 

 the exception of the outer one on each side, and 

 the two middle ones, have each an oval white spot 



