from Somaliland and Soutliern Abtjss'inia. 6G5 



d, €. ? iram. Kora, S. Abyssinia, lOtli Feb, Nos. 48J<. 

 485. 



Iris brown ; bill and legs black. 



Specimen a, the only fully adult bird, lias the wing 51 

 inches; other adults in the collection have the wing 5*2 

 inches. Sharpe and Wyatt (Monogr. Hirund. i. pp. 210, 

 211) give the wing-measurements as not exceeding 4<'7 in. 

 Younger birds differ from the adult in having the general 

 colour of the upper parts steel-blue instead of purplish blue, 

 the innermost secondaries tipped with white, and the under 

 parts washed with a stronger shade of rufous. The measure- 

 ments are, moreover, much smaller, the wing varying from 

 4*3 to 4'7 inches and the tail from 3"6 to 3'8 inches. In 

 the adult the outer tail-feathers are longer and more pointed. 



[The Abyssinian Mosque-Swallow is by no means a swift- 

 flying bird; it is generally seen in small companies of three 

 or four, and frequently perches. — A. E. P.] 



169. PSALIDOPBOCNE ANTINORII. 



Psalidoprocne antinorii Salvad.; Grant, Ibis, 1900, p. 177, 



a, b. $ . Kora, S. Abyssinia, 10th Feb. Nos. 475, 476. 



Iris brown ; bill and legs black. 



Count Salvadori has very kindly examined these two 

 specimens for us and compared them with the types of 

 Antinori's Rough-wdnged Swallow [P . antinoi'ii) in the Turin 

 Museum. He finds that they agree exactly. The only 

 complete example in the British Museum Collection had at 

 one time been in spirits, which have entirely destroyed the 

 fine purplish gloss on the head and upper parts, so con- 

 spicuous in the fresh specimens now before us. 



170. Mesopicus spodocephalus. 



Mesopicvs spodocephalus (Bonap.) ; Grant, Ibis, 1900, 

 p. 301. 



a. c? . Hiiliil, S. Abyssinia, 1st Dec. No. 145. 



Iris brown ; bill black ; legs dark slate-coloured. 



[The Blood-breasted Woodpecker was only seen once, but 

 it is by no means uncommon in the Kuni Woods. — A. E. P.] 



