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Show 1870. | MR. R. R. SHARPE ON ETHIOPIAN HIRUNDIMU/E. 319 of the feathers very broad and plain, but thicker and not giving such striped appearance in the adult; bill dark brown ; legs flesh-colour. Hab. Cape Colony (Layard); Natal (Jardine); Transvaal (Ayres); Mossamedes (Sala, Mus. Lugd.) ; Huilla (Anchieta). 20. HIRUNDO PUELLA. Hirundo puella, Temm. in Faun. Japon. Aves, p. 33 (1842, descr. orig.); Heugl. Orn. N.-O. Afr. p. 160(1869;; Grav, Hand-1. of B. i. p. 69 (1869); Finsch & Hartl. Orn. Ostafr. p. 160 (1870). Hirundo abyssinica, Gue'r. Rev. Zool. 1843, p. 322 (descr. orig.) ; id. in Ferr. et Gal. Voy. en Abyss, iii. p. 240, t. 10 (1847) ; Des Murs in Lefebvr. Voy. Abyss. Zool. p. 77 (1845) ; Gray, Gen. of B. i. p. 58 (1845) ; Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 340 (1850); Hartl. Journ. f. Orn. 1853, p 399, et 1855, p. 360; Mull. Journ. f. Orn. 1855, p. 4; Hartl. Orn. Westafr. p. 28 (1857), et Journ. f. Orn. 1861, p. 103; Kirk, Ibis, 1864, p. 320. Cecropis abyssinica, Cass. Cat. Hirund. Phil. Acad. p. 3 (1853); Brehm, Reise nach Habesch, p. 209 (1863). Cecropis striolata, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 18, t. 6 (1845, descr. orig.). Hirundo striolata, Gray, Cat. Fiss. Brit. Mus. p. 23(1848); Jard. Contr. to Orn. 1848, p. 4 ; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Birds Mus. E.-I. Co. i. p. 94 (1854). Head and back.of neck pale sienna; back and scapulars bright steel-blue; wing-coverts duller steel-blue; lower part of the back and rump deep sienna; quills brownish black, glossed with dull greenish blue; tail-feathers brownish black, glossed above with greenish steel-blue, all the feathers except the centre ones having a large white spot on the inner web ; underneath fulvous-white, profusely marked with broad longitudinal stripes of dark brown ; under wing-coverts deeper fulvous ; bill black ; feet dark brown. Hab. North-Eastern Africa (Heuglin) ; Fantee (Gordon); Rio Boutry (Pel) ; Ashantee (Mus. Brit.). Compared with H. cucullata, the present bird is much smaller and more slender, the head and rump are darker sieuna, and the breast is much more thickly striped than in the southern species. The Tables herewith appended will give some idea of the geographical distribution of Swallows throughout the Ethiopian region ; and it is worth noting that the curious representation of a species by one or more subspecies or races, so well known to every student of African ornithology, was never more fully elucidated than in the genus Hirundo as exhibited throughout the Ethiopian region. Thus- Hirundo albogularis has its representative H. cethiopica. H. dimidiata ,, ,, „ H. leucosoma. H. melanocrissa ,, ,, ,, //. domicella. H. senegalensis „ „ ,, H. monteiri. H. semirufa ,, „ ,, //. gordoni. H. cucullata ,, „ „ II. puella. |