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Show 308 MR. R. B. SHARPE ON ETHIOPIAN HIRUNDINIDEE. [May 12, whole of the inner web white, except a black border at the tip ; a narrow interrupted band across the breast, below tbe red throat, steel-blue ; rest of the breast and under tail-coverts ash-coloured, a little paler in the centre of the breast, the under tail-coverts washed with rufous, each feather margined with pale grey, and having a little heart-shaped blue mark before the end of the feather, the black shaft being also strongly defined; under wing-coverts dark ashy grey, washed on the edge of the wing with steel-blue ; beak and legs black. Hab. Angola : Huilla, Pungo-Andongo, Ambaca (Anchieta), Ambriz (Monteiro). 4. HIRUNDO LUCIDA. Hirundo lucida, Verr. Journ. f. Orn. 1858, p. 42 ; Hartl. Journ. f. Orn. 1861, p. 103 ; Gray, Hand-1. of B. i. p. 68 (1869) ; Sharpe, P.Z.S. 1869, p. 567. Above most brilliant steel-blue, inclining to indigo ; wing-coverts dark blackish brown, glossed with steel-blue above, the innermost cubital feathers with a white spot on the inner web ; tail deep steel-blue, all the feathers except the two middle ones for the most part pure white on the inner web, so that the tips and the part immediately edging the graduated extremity of the feather is black ; a distinct though narrow frontlet and the entire throat deep brick-red ; a baud across the breast, below the red throat, bright steel-blue, broad at the sides and narrow in the centre of the breast ; rest of the under surface of the body pure white, with a few dusky feathers on the flanks, and marked with narrow blue lines, more distinct in some specimens than in others; bill and feet black. Hab. River Gambia (Mus. R. B. S.). 5. HIRUNDO ALBIGULARIS. Hirundo albigularis, Strickl. Contr. Orn. 1849, p. 17, pl. 15. Hirundo albigula, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 338 (1850) ; Miill. Journ. f. Orn. 1855, p. 4; Gurney, Ibis, 1865, p. 264; Layard, Birds of S. Afr. p. 55 (1867); Gray, Hand-1. of B. i. p. 68 (1869). Hirundo rufifrons, Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 268 (1831, nee Vieill.) ; Grill, Zoolog. Anteckn. p. 34 (1858). Above deep purplish blue ; quills dark blackish brown, with a faint gloss on the upper surface; the innermost cubital feathers marked on the interior web with a greyish white spot; tail blackish brown, the two centre feathers unspotted, but all the others marked on the inner web with a large patch of white ; forehead deep chestnut; space between the bill and the eye and ear-coverts dusky black ; throat, cheeks, and sides of the neck white ; below the throat a broad band of purplish-blue feathers, broad at the sides and narrow in the centre of the breast; the rest of the under surface of the body dull white, greyish on the flanks ; bill black ; feet dark brown. Hab. Cape Colony (Layard) ; Natal (Ayres). |
