16G HIKTTNDINIDiE. 



slightly glossed with dull steel-blue, paler on the under surface and 

 on the inner edge of the secondaries ; lower part of the back and 

 rump uniform rich sienna ; upper tail-coverts glossy steel-blue ; tail 

 forked, black above, paler beneath, glossed on the upper surface 

 with greenish steel-blue ; under surface of the body white, fulvous 

 on the breast and abdomen, and marked on the breast with a few 

 narrow black strite ; under tail-coverts glossy steel-blue ; under 

 wing-coverts white : " iris brown " ( W. A. Forbes). Total length 

 7 inches, culmen 0*35, wing 4-4, tail 3-85, tarsus 0'55. 

 Mab. West Africa, from Senegambia to the Niger. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Kiver Gambia. Sharpe Collection. 



c,d. c? ? ad. sk. Shonga, River Niger. W. A. Forbes, Esq. [P.]. 



21. Hirundo badia. 



Cecropis badia, Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1853, p. 371 ; id. Cat. 



Himnd. Mus. Philad. Acad. p. 4 (1853). 

 Hirundo badia. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 09, no. 804 (1869). 

 Cecropis archetes, Hume, Sir. F. 1877, p. 266. 

 Hirundo archetes, Hume, Sir. F. 1879, p. 47 ; Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 592 



(1879). 



Adult. General colour above glossy steel-blue ; hind neck and 

 mantle slightly streaked with reddish on disturbing the feathers ; 

 lesser and median wing-coverts like the back ; greater coverts, 

 bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quiUs blackish, externally washed 

 with steel-blue ; rump and upper tail-coverts deep chestnut, the 

 long upper tail-coverts steel-blue ; tail-feathers black glossed with 

 steel-blue ; crown of head like the back ; lores dusky ; a narrow 

 line of red commencing at the base of the forehead and extending 

 over the eye, forming a narrow and scarcely perceptible eyebrow ; 

 sides of hinder crown, ear-coverts, cheeks, and under surface of body 

 deep chestnut, with indistinct blackish streaks, very tiny on the 

 ear-coverts and throat, but a little larger on the breast, abdomen, 

 and flanks ; a patch of steel-blue feathers on the sides of the upper 

 breast ; thighs and under tail-coverts chestnut, the long ones of the 

 latter with steel-blue ends, the longest entirely steel-blue ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries chestnut, the latter slightly mottled with 

 dusky bases and narrow blackish shaft-lines ; quiUs below dusky 

 brown. Total length 6 inches, culmen 0*4, wing 4*95, tail 2*7, 

 tarsus 0"G. 



The specimen described is in the British Museum, and the only 

 other specimen which we have seen in this country is one in Capt. 

 Wardlaw Ilamsay's collection ; it was obtained in Malacca by the 

 late Dr. Maingay. This specimen measures as follows : — Total 

 length 7 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 5'3, tail 1-9, outer tail-feathers 

 3'9. It is apparently in more complete plumage than the Museum 

 skin, as there is considerable difference between the dimensions of 

 the two birds. 



Hab. Malacca. 



Ad. sk. Malacca. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



