NO. 1411. BIRB^ FROM MOUNT KILIMANJARO— OBERHOLSER. 933 



the adult in its noticeably more brownish plumage, particularly on 

 the rump and abdomen, and in its darker brown inferior wing-coverts 

 and axillars. 



HIRUNDO MONTEIRI Hartlaub. 



Ilirundo monieiri Hartlaub, Ibis, 1862, p. 340, pi. xi (Massangaiio and Gam- 

 l)ambe, Angola). 



P'our specimens, from Kahe, south of Mount Kilimanjaro. The 

 female is rather duller on the upper surface than the male, and is 

 smaller, with less well-deyeloped lateral tail feathers. Both female 

 and immature haye the innermost secondaries tipped with buti'. 



HIRUNDO PUELLA ABYSSINICA (Guerin). 



Hirundo ahysKmicd Gukkin, Rev. Zool., 1843, p. 322 (Abyswinia). 



Two adult specimens, male and female, from Tayeta. 



There are undoubtedly at least two easily distinguishable races of 

 Htnoulo puella: one confined to western Africa, the other to the 

 eastern part of the continent but ranging from Cape Colony to Abys- 

 sinia. The first description of Ilirundo puella^ was based on the bird 

 from the coast of Guinea, and consequentl}" is applicable to the west 

 African form; and of this Hirundo I'ortJudsl Bonaparte,'' from an 

 unknown localit}^ is apparently a synonym. For the eastern bird 

 there is ayailable IHrundo ahyssin!ca Guerin,'' described from Abys- 

 sinia, and shortly afterwards renamed by Riippell Cecropis strlolata'^ on 

 specimens from the same region. The eastern bird stands, therefore, 

 as Hirundo pu ell a ahysslnica^ and differs from Hirundo puelhi puella 

 in larger size; much more broadl}' streaked lower parts, particularly 

 on sides and abdomen; more whitish (less rufescent) crissuni, sides, 

 flanks, and lining of wing; rather paler rump and pileum. The table 

 of measurements in Sharpe and Wyatt's Monograph of the Hirun- 

 dinidfe (pages 342-3-1:3) so well exhibits the difference in size between 

 the two forms that further measurements are really not necessaiy. 



The dimensions of Doctor Abbott's examples, howeycr, are as 

 follows: 



a Imperfect. 



«Temmint'k and Schlegel, Fauna Japonit-a, Aves, 1842, p. 34. 



''Consp. Avium, I, 1850, p. 340. 



tRev. Zool., 1843, p. 322. 



t'Syst. Uebers. Vog. Nord.-Ost.-Afr., 1845, p. 18, pi. vi. 



