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HIRUNDO EMINI Reichenow. 



Hinuulo em'niJ Reichenow, Journ. f. Ornith., LS!)2, pp. ?>0, 215 (Bunsisi and 

 Bukolia, Victoria Nyanza, (Jermaii East Africa). 



Two speciincns, from Lake Chala, and from Maraiiu, Mount Kili- 

 manjaro, at 5,000 feet, respectively. The former is an inmiatiire 

 female, taken July 1, 18S8, and differs from the adult male in smaller 

 size; ])roader, less lengthened lateral tail-feathers; paler abdomen; 

 duller upper parts; oehraceous rump, in which chestnut feathers arc 

 just makino- their appearance; secondaries and inner pi-imaries either 

 very narrowly tipped, or edged on distal portion of inner webs with 

 cream white; and tertials rather conspicuously tipped with butf. 

 This species, it will l)e noted, is another of those that were undcscribed 

 when Doctor Abbott's specimens were colh^cted. 



HIRUNDO RUSTICA Linnaeus. 



Hirundo rusticn Linn.eus, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., I, 1758, p. 191 (Europe [type 

 locality, Sweden] ). 



Three specimens: one adult female from Kahe, south of Mount 

 Kilimanjaro, September 6, 18S8; and two immature males from Mount 

 Kilimanjaro, one of these taken November 15, 1888, at 8,000 feet, 

 the other Novembei- iiO, at 10,000 feet. 



Family MOTACILLID^. 



MACRONYX AURANTIIGULUS Reichenow. 



Macronyx aumntiigula Reichenow, Journ. f. Ornith., 1891, p. 222 (Pangani 

 River, German East Africa). 

 Three apparently typical specimens, from the plains near Mount 

 Kilimanjaro, and Aruscha-wa-chini, southwest of Kilimanjaro. There 

 is no observable difference between the sexes. 



MOTACILLA VIDUA Sundevall. 



Motadlla vidua Sundevall, Ofv. K. Vet.-Akad. Forh. Stockholm, 1850, p. 128 

 (Kaffir Land, South Africa). 



Three specimens, from Taveta, March 27 and 28, 1888. One of 

 these is an adult in perfect black-backed plumage; the two others are 

 immature birds with dark grayish brown upper parts, and some nar- 

 row white edgings to the black feathers of the pectoral crescent. 



BUDYTES CAMPESTRIS (Pallas). 



Motadlla campestris T.vllas, Reis. Russ. Reichs, III, 1776, p. 696 (Russian 

 Empire). 



One female, from the plains east of Mount Kilimanjaro, January, 

 1889. It is an innnature bird with yellowish olive green upper parts, 

 and lower surface posteriorly nuich mixed with white. 



