HIRUNDINID.E. o O 



82. Hirundo Griseopyga. (Sunde.) Ofvers. Kongi. 



Vet. Ak. Forhandl., p. 107. 



BLUE-black, with white belly ; rump grey ; head fuscous ; 

 ear-covers black. 



Inhabits Natal (Wahlberg) non vidi. 



83. HirundO Gordon!, Jard. ; Hirundo Semi- 

 rufa, Sundevall, Ofvers. Kongl. Vet. Ak. ForhandA., 

 p. 107. 



ABOVE steel-blue black ; rump and all the under parts light 

 rufous ; tail deeply forked ; all the feathers, with the excep- 

 tion of the four middle ones, marked with white on the minor 

 webs. The outermost much elongated and attenuated. 



Inhabits Kaffraria. (Whalb. teste Hartlaub, Orn., W. Af.) I 

 fancy it hardly comes within my range ; Whalberg having invented 

 his own limits for " Kaffraria." 



84. Hirundo Atrocoerulea, Sundv. ; Ofvers. 



Kongl. Vet. Ak. Forhandl., p. 107. 



THROUGHOUT blue- black, occasionally an indistinct spot on 

 the top of the external tail-feather. 



Natal : Frequenting' the open country, and said (teste Ayres) to be 

 the most common of all their swallows sed non vidi. 



85. HirundO Albigula, Bps. ; Hirundo Albigu- 

 lciris > Strickland, 1848; H. Rufifrons, Less., nee. 

 Vieil., Cont. Orn., 1849, t. 17. 



FOREHEAD chesnut brown ; back blue ; beneath white ; pec- 

 toral band black ; wings scarcely exceeding the tail ; inner 

 webs of tail-feathers marked with quadrangular white spots. 

 Length, 6^". 



Natal : Ayres non vidi. 



86. Hirundo Lunifrons. (Sav.) Pr. Bonap., 128; 



Amer. Ornith., PL 7, f. 1. ; and B. of Amer., PI. 68. 

 UPPER parts deep brown, glossed with steel-blue ; rump 

 brick-red ; under parts white, dashed with rufous ; vent- 

 feathers deep .rufous ; a rufous line extends from the base of 

 the bill over the eye ; wings and tail deep-brown, with a 



freenish lustre inside ; the shoulder light rufous. Length, 

 "9"'; wing, 4" 6'"; tail, 2" 6"'. 



Procured in the neighbourhood of Middelburg by Mr. A. V. Jack- 

 son. Builds in companies under rocks. I was first led to a knowledge of 



