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musfe^ave been a slip of the pen , as in my original note- 

 book the eye is registered as dark brown. Both, adult and 

 young , above mentioned specimens have the iris of the 

 same color. 



12. Scotornis longicauda (Drap.). 



Butt. N. L. M. 1885, p. 156; id. 1886, p. 248. 



A very frequent bird in brushwood and coffee-plantations 

 at Schieffelinsville. 



13. W aldcnia nig rit a (Gray). 



Biitt. N. L. M. 1885, p. 157. 



Frequently found in pairs with nest and eggs on the 

 Du Queah, from its mouth upward to the first falls, and 

 on all the other rivers I happened to visit on my journey 

 to Cape Palm as. The beautiful River Swallow is not easily 

 got to leave the place which it once has chosen as nesting 

 place, and will always keep within some hundred yards from 

 it. On one of my first trips up the Du Queah, the 3''l of Ja- 

 nuary, I found a nest with two fresh eggs in a hollow of a log, 

 projecting about six feet above high water. The nest con- 

 sisted ot small stems of grass , ditto pieces of bark and a 

 few feathers without any earthy substances, and contained 

 two eggs. As it was a very fine nesting place , I sawed 

 the end of the log down when passing a few days after- 

 wards and carried it off with nest and eggs, which were 

 then four in number. About two weeks afterwards I hap- 

 pened to pass the same spot again and found a new nest in 

 the resting part of the hollow , probably built by the same 

 pair of Swallows , but this time constructed of clay and mud 

 in the way of our House Martin and stuck to the wall of 

 the hollow. It was lined with some stems of grass and 

 other soft materials and a few feathers of a pigeon , and 

 contained three eggs. I again carried off nest and eggs 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseum, Vol. X. 



