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when I first shot it I at once doubted its identity with that 

 bird, and found on my return that Mr. E. C. Taylor agreed 

 in my view, which made me careful, on revisiting Egypt, to 

 procure more specimens, and I watched in vain among the 

 many that I daily saw for one dark specimen ; all were of 

 the paler kind. It was not apparently breeding up to the 

 beginning of May, when I last shot it. Major Irby has pro- 

 cured this species from Tangier, where, he says, it arrives 

 before C. apus. 



Above uniform brownish-grey, slightly inclining to white 

 on the forehead and over the eye ; feathers in front of the 

 eye blackish ; wing-coverts greyish brown, with an obsolete 

 white edging; primary-coverts rather darker; quills dark 

 greyish-brown, paler ou the inner webs, the outer web (espe- 

 cially of the primaries) very dark (almost black on the last- 

 mentioned feathers) ; tail greyish-brown, uniform with the 

 breast ; cheeks and sides of the neck pale greyish-brown ; 

 entire throat white, and under siu-face of the body dark 

 greyish-brown, the feathers on the lower part of the breast 

 having obsolete white tips. 



Entire length 6'5 inches ; culmen 0"3 ; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 6-5 to 6-7 ; tarsus 05. 



153. Cypselus parvus, Licht. Little Grey Swift. 



Von Heuglin (Orn. N. 0. Afr. p. 145) says of this species 

 that it is a resident in Southern Egypt and Nubia throughout 

 the year, and that he has found it breeding near Wady Haifa 

 between the months of May and August. 



Tail forked, outer feather on each side very lony and 



