the Summer Migration of 1915-16. 143 



to this species, though they did not give me an opportunity 

 of satis'actorily identifying thcMn. 



No records are to hand this sonson of the movements of 

 the South African Cliff-Swallow. On the last day of 

 November, in a hurried visit to the time-honoured haunt 

 at Blaney goods-shed, I saw that four nests indicated their 

 present strength there. My efforts to elicit ths date of first 

 occupation of the goods-shed have so far proved unavailing, 

 yet I feel sure that tliis iufonnation is in the possession of 

 some of my readers, and I make a further appeal to them 

 to clear up this point for me. Unless the information is 

 obtained now, it may be irretrievably lost. 



On the morning of September 21, after a night of slight 

 but steady rain, I heard at Firie the call of the Greater 

 Stripe-breasted Swallow, and looking up saw a pair flying 

 in the misty drizzle. At Tsolo this species remained till 

 April 23, and the last individuals were seen next day by 

 the Inxu. 



Very little information is forthcoming regarding the 

 movements of the Lesser Stripe-breasted Swallow, and 

 during the past season the species was personnlly met with 

 on one occasion only. On November 29, a day of terrible 

 wind on the open beach, I was out for a ramble alongshore 

 at East London, and, in a sheltered valley covered with 

 dense scrub, I came on fiive of these Swallows quartering 

 over the tree-tops, uttering their harsh cries and settling 

 repeatedly on the bure stumps of dead trees that projected 

 above the bush level. The scene reminded }ne of the Idoof 

 where I first examined the nest of this species, and 1 suspect 

 the birds were nesting in this valley. The only Black Saw- 

 wing observed during the season was met with at the same 

 time and place. 



The European Swallow eluded observation till Decem- 

 ber 16, when one was encountered on the Dehe Flats. By 

 Christmas they were quite numerous, gliding obtrusively to 

 and fro over the veld. In the Tsolo district, where the 

 species is widespread and abundant during the season, they 

 were in evidence till April 2, though on April 23 I saw 



