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same spot where , in small excavities , their nests can he 

 found. 



Iris dark brown , bill and feet black. 



Hi r undo rust tea. 



Hirundo rustica ^ Linn. Hartl. Oru. W. Afr. p. 26. 



This bird arrives in Liberia in great swarms in the be- 

 ginning of the dry season , i. e. about half of November , 

 when the Termites [Termes bellicosus) are swarming in the 

 air. Famished as they are by the long journey, they make 

 the most vivacious evolutions across the dark clouds of 

 Termites , and the flapping of their bills can be heard even 

 at some distance. 



As I suppose these Swallows will not breed in their 

 tropical winter-quarters, a nest with 3 half-fledged young 

 ones, which I got on the 2^^ of April 1882, short before 

 my departure from Liberia, certainly will belong to the 

 closely allied H. lucida (Verr. J. f. 0. 1858, p. 42; Sharpe , 

 P. Z S. 1870, p. 308). I found it on an old window- 

 seat of the Dutch factory at Monrovia. It was built in the 

 same way as the nests of our H. rustica. 



Eurystomus afcr. 



Coracias afra, Lath. Ind, Orn. I. p. 172. 



Eurystomus afer , Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 28 ; — Schl. 

 Mus. P.-B. Coraces, p. 142. — Sharpe, Ibis, 1871, 

 p. 274. 



Hab. West Africa, as far down as Angola; East Africa, 

 as far as the Zambesi. 



Three specimens from the St. Pauls River and the Fish- 

 erman Lake. 



The adult male nearly entirely cinnamon , but shaded un- 

 derneath and on the under wing-coverts with purple. Un- 

 der tail-coverts , under surface of quills and tail-feathers , 

 except the black tips, sea-green. Bill entirely orange- 

 Notes from thie Leyden Miiisetim, Vol. "VII. 



