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C O T I L E F U L I G U L A (Lkh t).
EU PO Ü S -T IIK O A T ED llOCK-MAR TIN.
CO TILE FULIGULA
L 'Hiro n d elle fa n v e , Levaill. Ois. d’Afr. v. p. 150, pl. 2-lG; Sundev. K rit. Framst.,
Levaill. p. 52 (1857).
Hirundo fid ig u la , Lieht. in F o rs t. Descr. Anim. p. 55 (18-14); Grill, Zool. Anteckn.
p. 30 (1858).
H im n d o lujemalis, Forster, Descr. Anim. p. 55 (184¡4).
Cotyle fu lig u la , Gray, Gen. B. i. p. GO (1815); id. Cat. Fissir. B rit. Mus. p. 29
(1818); Bp. Consp. i. p. 312 (1850); Cab. Alus. Ilc in . Th. i. p. 10-1 (1850);
H a rtl. J . f. 0 .1 8 6 1 , p. 10 3 ; Gurney, Ibis, 1865, p. 26 1 ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 57
(1SG7); Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 299 (pt.) ; id. Cat. Afr. B. p. 45 (1871); Shelley,
Ibis, 1875, p. 6 8 ; Ayres, Ibis, 1876, p. 42-1, 187S, p. 407, 1879, p. 2 9 1 ; Salvin,
Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 153 (18 8 2 ); Butler, Fcilden, & Reid, Zool. 1882, p. 25 0 ;
Sharpe, ed. L ay ard ’s B. S. Afr. p. 360 (1883).
Cotile fu lig u la . Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 73, no. 874 (1869); Sharpe, ed. Lay a rd ’s B.
S. Afr. p. 810 (1881); id. Cat. Birds in B rit. Alus. x. p. 106 (1885).
C. major; rectricibus albo maculatis; subcamlalibus saturate bruuneis; giilil et iJKcpeetore claré
rufescentibus.
Hab. in Africsi meritlionali.
Adult male. General colour above dark sooty brown, the head slightly more dusky than the back ; wing-
covcrts and qnills darker brown than the back, the inner greater coverts and scapulars of tlic
same sooty brown as the back ; tail-fcathcrs dark brown, all but the two centre feathers and the
outermost with a large round white spot on the inner web; lores blackish ; ear-covcrts and sides
of neck dark sooty brown like the b a c k ; throat and breast tawny rufous, extending over the
abdomen; sides of breast, flanks, abdomen, and under tail-coverts dark sooty brown; axillaries
;ind under wing-covcrts rufous, with sooty-brown bases, causing a mottled appearance near tlie
edge of the wing; quills sooty brown below, paler along the inner web: “ bill black; legs
brown; iris brown” [T. L. Ajjres). Total leugth 5 incbcs, culmcn 0’-4, wing 5'05, tail 2'1,
tarsus 0'45.
Adult female. Similar to the male in colour. Total length 5'4 inches, culmen 0 ’4, wing 5, tail 2 4 5 ,
tarsus 0-45.
Young. Only differs from the adult in having rufous edgings to the feathers of the upper parts, lower
abdomen, and under tail-coverts.
Hab. South Africa, from the Cape Colony to Natal and the Transvaal.