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Clivicola eurofeaa, T. Forster, Syn. Cat. Brit. B., p =8 (1817) 
Cotile riparia, B. 0 . U. List Br. B„ p. 44 (1883) ; Sharpe, Cat. 
B Bnt. Mus., x., p. 96 (1885); Saunders, Man., p. i S9 
(1889). ^ Jy 
Cotyle riparia, Dresser, B. Eur, iii., p. 505, p l. i63 ( i874 ); 
Newton, ed. Yarr, u p. 355 (1880); Lilford, Col. Fig. 
Brit. B., part 111. (1886). 
Adult Mae— Brown above, including the wings and tail • 
sides of face also brown ; cheeks and under surface of body 
pure white, with a broad collar of dark brown feathers across 
the fore-neck ; sides of body also washed with brown • under 
wmg-coyerts and ax.llaries dark brown ; bill blackish-brown ; 
feet dark brown ; ins hazel. Total length, 4-8 inches ; oilmen 
°‘3 i wing, 4-25 ; tail, 2T ; tarsus, 0-45. 
Adult Female— Similar in plumage to the male. Total lencrth 
5 inches ; wing, 4-2. 0 ’ 
n,fn < !!? g '~ L K k v t L e a n d “ ltS ’ but readil y distinguished by sandy- 
rufous or whitish edgings to the feathers of the back and 
wings; throat slightly tinged with pale rufous. 
Range in Great Britain— Occurs everywhere throughout the 
three kingdoms in suitable localities, and breeds. 
Range outside the British Islands— Breeds everywhere through- 
out Europe, up to the highest point of Scandinavia but in 
lessening numbers in the north. It occurs commonly n 
summer at Archangel, was met with by Messrs Seehohm 
and Ilarvie-Brown on the Petchora riveTand frfoSS 
M Sf Ul A^ UP - t0 u° j N ‘ lat ' Elsewher e in Europe and 
Northern Asia it is a breeding bird, and extends right across to 
Eastern Siberia. It is also distributed over the greater part of 
North America during the breeding season, wintering in Cen- 
tral and South America, and in the Old World it winters in 
Burma and in India, and has been found in various localities 
in Africa at the same season. 
Habits— Arrives in England in April, and leaves in September 
seldom staying as late as October. Its nesting is conducted in 
a different manner from that of the other two British Swallows 
for the Sand-Martin burrows in a hole in a bank, and makes its 
