£04 HIRTINDINID^. 



having the outer edge of the first primary smooth, not serrated. 

 Total length 5-1 inches, culmen 0-25, wing 3-45, tail 3, tarsus 0-35. 



Young. Sooty brown with a greenish wash on the back; below 

 dull sooty brown ; gape yellow. 



Younrj(A. obsciira, Temm.). Distinguished by its yellow gape and 

 sooty-brown plumage ; tail much shorter and only slightly forked. 



Hab. Gold Coast, W. Africa. 



a, b. S ad. sk. Fantee ( Ussher). Sbarpe Collection. 



c. (S ad. sk. Fort Victoria, Gold Coast Sbarpe Collection. 



( Ussher). 



d,e. Juv. sk. Fantee. A. Swanzy, Esq. [P.]. 



/. $ ad. sk. Wasa, March 1872 {Blissett). Sharps Collection. 



g. Juv. sk. Ashantee. J. Gould, Esq. 



3. Psalidoprocne nitens. 



Atticora nitens, Cass. Proc. Acad, rhilad. 1857, p. 38 ; Hartl. Orn. 



Westafr. p. 261 (1857) ; Cass. Proc. PMlad. Acad. 1859, p. 33 ; 



Hartl. J.f. O. 1861, p. 103; Du Chaillu, Equal. Afr. p. 472 



(1861). 

 Hirimdo nitens, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 71, no. 831 (1869). 

 PsaUdoprocne nitens, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 291 ; id. Ibis, 1872, 



p. 70 ; Ussher, Ibis, 1874, p. 61. 



Adult. Above glossy greenish black, very bright and distinct 

 both above and below ; quills dark brown, glossed with greenish 

 above, as also is the tail, which is quite square ; bill black ; feet 

 light brown. Total length 4-3 inches, wing 3-8, tail 2-2. 



Obs. The specimens from Gaboon and the Camaroous have the 

 throat sooty brown, but whether this is a specific character, or 

 merely a sign of youth or abrasion of the plumage, I am unable to 

 say from the series before me. 



Hab. West Africa, from the Gold Coast to Gaboon. 



a, b. cS ad. sk. Fort Victoria, Gold Coast Sharpe Collection. 

 {Ussher). 



c. c? ad. sk. Camaroons {Crossley). Sharpe Collection. 



d. S ad. sk. Muui River. P. B. Du Chaillu, Esq. 



[C.]. 



e. (S ad. sk. Gaboon. P. B. Du Chaillu, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 f,(/. (S 2 ad. sk. Landana, Congo (i. Petit). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



4. Psalidoprocne petiti. 



Psalidoprocne petiti, Sharpe iSf Bouvier, Btdl. Soc. Zool. France, i. 

 p. 38, pi. ii. (1876) ; Otisfalet, Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) i. p. 106 

 (1877) ; Bocage, Orn. Angola, p. 188 (1881) ; Oustalet, Nam. 

 Arch. Mus. (2) ii. p. 96 (1879). 



Adult male (type of species). General colour above sooty black ; 

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

 bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills black ; tail-feathers black ; 

 lores velvety black ; cheeks, ear-coverts, and under surface of body 

 sooty black like the upper surface ; under wing-coverts and axil- 



