2. PSECDOCHKUDON. '21 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 5-7 inches, 

 culmeii 5, wing 3-85, tail 2'25, tarsus 0"5. 



Yoioij. Similar to the adults, but having the feathers spotted 

 with ochre ; the under surface of the body barred with sandy buff ; 

 the terminal spots on the tail smaller and tinged with greyish. 



Hab. Nearly the whole of Australia, excepting Cape York, 

 Victoria, and Interior province. 



Australia. Gould Coll. 



Australia. Sir T. Mitchell [P.]. 



New South Wales. J. Gould, Esq. [C. ]. 



South Australia (/. T. Cockerell). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Queeusland. Tweeddale Coll. 



FitzrovKiver, N. W. Australia Capt. Bowyer Bower 

 {T. 'H. Bowyer Bower). [P.]. 



/.Juv. N.W. Austraha. J.R.Elsey,Es(i. [P.]. 



Peron's Peninsula, Shark Bav, Vov. H.M.S.'Herald.' 

 May 18-58 (Dr. Bayner). ' 



2. PSEUDOCHELIDON. 



Type. 

 Pseudochelidon, Hartl. Ibis, 1861, p. 322 P. eurystomina. 



Range. Confined to West Africa. 



1. Pseudochelidon eurystomina. 



Pseudochelidon eurystomina, Hartl. Ibis, 1861, p. 322, pi. xi. ; Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. i. p. 290, no. 4292 (1869). 



Adult. Greenish black above with an ashy gloss : wings and tail 

 slaty black ; head all round purplish black, as well as the under 

 surface of the body, which is shghtly more ashy black on the ab- 

 domen ; thighs black, ashy whitish at the ends ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries dull ashy brown; quills dusky below, ashy brown 

 along the inner webs. Total length 5'7 inches, culmer. O'o, wing 

 4-85, tail 1-85, tarsus 0-6. 



Hah. Gaboon. 



a. Ad. sk. Gaboon. M. Verreaux. 



