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where I went camping for a few days. (The village of 

 Bitye is ten or fifteen miles from the Ja.) Swallows of this 

 species were often seen during the four days passed in this 

 camp, perched on snags or projecting dead branches over 

 the water, or skimming over the surface of the river. They 

 were never seen away from the water for a moment, and 

 could only be obtained by fishing them out of the river after 

 they were shot. 



977. PsALiDOPROCNE NiTENs. [Ngulcyebe, or Ngulcyem.] 



Sharpe, Ibis, 3907, p. 444. 



No. 2642. ? . Akok (between Efulen and Kribi), July 

 18, 1907. 



No. 2872. ? . Bitye, R. Ja, Jan. 20, 1908. 



The last is the first specimen of this species obtained at the 

 Ja, where the common species of Psalidoprocne is P.petiti. 

 I had supposed that P. petiti was the only species at the 

 J a, and F. nitens the only one near the coast. But my getting 

 this specimen, and likewise seeing P. petiti, which is easily 

 distinguished from the other by its forked tail, along the 

 road more than halfway from Bitye to the coast, shews that 

 the territories of the two s[)ecies overlap. 



Both the specimens recorded above were sitting birds, dug 

 out of their holes in banks of streams. (See note in ' The 

 Ibis,' 1907, p. 445.) In the hole dug out at Bitye were 

 two eggs (which got broken) lying on a nest or a bed of the 

 Usnea or " beard of trees." In the hole at Akok, which w as 

 near the top of a bank of loose clay, some four or five feet 

 above the stream, and extended into the bank a foot and 

 a half, enlarged as it penetrated in, was an ample nest of 

 moss and Usnea, with two eggs. These both measured the 

 same — 19 x 13 mm. 



[One egg of a rather long, pointed oval form, slightly 

 glossy and uniform white. — O.-G.] 



In my former note I spoke of two of these birds visiting 

 my house at Efulen, looking for a nesting-place. 1 have 

 lately seen a much more remarkable though similar action. 

 While sitting in the house of a missionary at Ebolwoa, 



