Birds from Biritish East Africa. 705 



a. ? . Mombasa, 26th Aug., 1900. (No. 4.) 



b. Ad. Takauugu. 

 Feet coral-pink. 



The native name for this bird is " Shuella." 

 [This Coly is a very common species, and extremely 

 destructive to gardens; I may mention that they took 

 most of my custard-apples without waiting for them to 

 ripen.— A. B. P.] 



119. Cypselus affinis (Gray & Hardw.). 

 Apus affinis Reich, ii. p. 38.2. 



a, b. Ad. Mombasa, Oct. 1900. (No. 38.) 

 [There were three colonies of these Swifts near Mombasa ; 

 one, about three miles from the town, contained several 

 hundred nests, which formed a bunch as large as a clothes- 

 basket. In October I pulled down eight or ten of them, but 

 found no eggs. 



A second colony, which was situated under the veranda 

 of one of the houses in Mombasa, was almost, if not quite, 

 as large. The third was in a small cave on the north side of 

 Takauugu Creek, just above high-water mark, but this I did 

 not examine at close quarters. — A. B. P.~\ 



120. Cypselus shelleyi Salvad. 

 Apus shelleyi Reich, ii. p. 378. 



a, b. ? . Kikuyu Forest, May 190?. (Nos. 276, 288.) 

 These examples belong to a rare species, which ranges 

 from Shoa to British Central Africa. There are specimens 

 of it in the British Museum from Shoa,Zombain Nyasaland, 

 and Mount Kinangop in the Naivasha District. 



121. Caprimulgus fossii Hartl. 

 Caprimulgus fossei clams Reich, ii. p. 367. 

 Caprimulgus fossei Reich, ii. p. 365 ; Grant, Trans. Zool. 



Soc. xix. p. 428 (1910). 



a, b. ?. Takaungu, Dec. 1900 and 23rd Jan., 1901. 

 (Nos. 139, 141.) 



c. ? . Malindi, 3rd March, 1901. (No. 140.) 

 The wing-measurements of the three birds are, respec- 

 tively, 5'45, 5*5, and 575 inches. 



