1905.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 767 



89. Mesopicus spodocephalus Bp. 



Mesophicus spodocephalus Bp., Conap. Gen. Av., I, p 125, 1S50. [W. 

 Africa.] 



Naivasha, August 10 ; Morandat river, August 26. "Irides hazel, bill 



dark slate, feet greenish gray." 



90. lynx ruficoUis Wagl. 



lynx ruficoUis Wagler, Hist. Nat. de Amph., p. US, footnote, 1S30. [Kaffir- 

 land.] 

 Morandat river, August 28; El Bolossa swamp, September 22. 

 "Irides light brown, bill horn, feet ochraceous." 



HIRUNDINID^. 



91. Riparia cincta (Bodd.). 



Hirundo cincta Boddaert, Tabl. PI. Enl., p. 4.5, 1783. 

 El Bolossa swamp, September 9. "Irides hazel, bill dusky, feet 

 dark horn color." One is an old bird just beginning to molt the body 

 plumage, but with no indications of molting the flight feathers. The 

 other is a bird of the year. 



92. Riparia minor (Cab.). 



CUvicola minor Cab., Mus. Hein. Th., I, p. 49, 1S50. [N. E. Africa.] 

 Naivasha, May 19 and August 21 ; Tana river, June 6. "Irides hazel, 

 bill black, feet black." The May specimen has just completed the 

 wing molt; and both it and one of the August specimens are obviously 

 young of the year. The other August bird is in the midst of the molt 

 of the flight feathers, while the body molt is nearly completed. It pre- 

 sents an entirely different appearance from the spring adult, being 

 dark plumbeous instead of brown, with white tips to the tertials. The 

 resemblance of the June specimen in the brown breeding plumage to 

 the North American Stelgidopteryx serripennis is remarkable. 



93. Hirundo smithii Leach. 



Hirundo Smithii Leach, App. Tuckey's Voy. Congo, p. 407, ISIS. [Off 

 Chisall Island.] 



Tana river, June 24; Naivasha, August 2. 'Trides hazel, bill and 



feet black." 



94. Hirundo senegalensis Linn. 



Hirundo senegalensis Linn., S. N., I, p. 345, 1766. [Senegal.] 

 Nairobi, July 21. ''Irides hazel, bill black, feet horn color." This 

 specimen is molting; the new feathers are all glossy blue on the body, 

 glossy green on the tail and wing, tertials narrowly tipped with pale 

 buff, old flight feathers dull blackish. The tail shows the outline of 

 the superimposed feathers still glossy, only the exposed terminal por- 

 tion being worn and dull. 



