obtained in British East Africa. 625 



together with the smaller species with white throat. Stomach 

 contained large numbers of living bees and beetles. 



[The above specimen belongs to the true C. aquatorinlis 

 (wing 7'95), like Mr. Jackson's former Sotik examples (wing 

 7'6-8'2)^ and not to the smaller C. niansce of Reichenow, 

 which has a wing under 6 inches. — R. B. S.] 



302. CyPSELUS SHELLEYl. 



Cypselus shelleyi Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) vi. p. 227 

 (1888 : Shoa) ; Hartert, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 445, note 

 (1892) ; Sharpe, Hand-1. B. ii. p. 95 (1900). 



Apus shelleyi Hartert, Tierreich, Aves, Liefer, i. p. 86 

 (1897). 



No. 225. S ad. Mau, 7800 feet, Aug. 8, 1896. Bill 

 black ; feet brown ; iris brown. 



No. 877. S ad. Nandi, 6500 feet, Feb. 16, 1898. In 

 flocks in the evening, together with Swallows. 



a. ? ad. Lake Naivasha, Sept. 10, 1898. 



[The differences between C. shelleyi and C pekinensis are 

 very slight, and the blunter termination to the outer tail- 

 feathers is a scarcely j)erceptible character. — R. B. S.] 



303. Cypselus barbatus. 



Micropus barbatus (Scl.) ; Hartert, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xvi. 

 p. 447 (1892). 



Apus barbatus Hartert, Tierreich, Aves, Liefer, i. p. 86 

 (1897). 



Cypselus barbatus Sharpe, Hand-1. B. ii. p. 96 (1900). 



Nos. 223, ? ; 224, c? ad. Mau, 7800 feet, Aug. 8, 1896. 

 Bill black ; feet brown ; iris brown. These specimens were 

 shot out of one flock. 



No. 936. c? ad. Kavirondo, 4500 feet, April 1, 1898. 



[The female from Mau has very broad black streaks on 

 the throat, as in Cape specimens of C, barbatus, but the 

 other two examples have very fine streaks. The abdominal 

 feathers all have white margins. It seems to me to be by 

 no means impossible that C. barbatus is only the young of 

 C. apus after its first autumn moult, though Mr. Hartert 

 thinks otherwise. In any case C. barbatus is now found 

 for the first time in East Africa. — R. B. S.] 



