tlie Transvaal Museum f)'0)n Boror. 29 



Htrundo puella, Temm. \\. 9()1 . (2 M., 2 F.) Rosidcnt. 



T. lioht brown ; B. & L. black. Leng. 138 (?)-170 ; 

 W. 105-110; Tl. C.'K?)-«^. 



Laro(' nninbcrs were seen daring flip winter inontlis ])erclioil 

 on the bare branches of large trees left standing in clearings. 

 A number o£ nests in- various stages were found under over- 

 lianging rocks on the Kane River on 2nd November, one of 

 which contained two fresh white eggs, which measure 

 20 X 13"2. In this case, and in others in the Transvaal, the 

 nests were all built with the entraiu'(^ facing inwards towards 

 the supporting wall and not outward towards the obs(>rver, as 

 is the case with others of the species which build tubular- 

 moutheil nests. 



HiRUNDO SMITHI, Leach. R. 959. (2 M., 1 F.) Resident. 



T. brown ; B. & h. black. Leng. 154 k 132 ; AV. 110 k 

 105; Tl. 78 & 55. 



Tiiis Swallow is a smaller edition of //. (ilhif/nlaris, having 

 the same appearance and resembling it in all its habits. 

 Open mud nests lined with feathers were observed at all the 

 European settlements and at Quelimane, placed under the 

 eaves and sometimes in the rooms of houses ; one nest at 

 Villa Pereira was still in use in May and the young did not 

 leave it until tlie hitter part of that month, and a puir was 

 seen building a nest under the eaves of a native hut at 

 Marunganya on the 23rd Se[)teml)er. An addled egg was 

 taken from a nest at Mixixine on 2(jtli A])ril ; it does not 

 differ in colour from that of alli'iyuhu'ls, but is much smaller, 

 measuring 17"7x 1IV3, 



HiRUNDO MONTEiRi, Ilartl. (1 M., 1 F.) Resident. 



I. grey-brown ; B. & h. black. Leng. (F.) 203 ; W. 112 

 & 140 ; Tl. ^-2k 88. 



Montciro's Swallow was nowliere very conunon, but was 

 observed in most parts of the prazo in parties of four or Hve 

 jx'rched on the tops of very tall dead trees in the forest A 

 number of old nests, which were, I think, constructed bv this 

 species, were found in a hollow horizontal branch of a tn.>o 

 standing in the clearinii at Villa Pereira. 



