Birds of Sunt hern Cameroon. 519 



The eggs (Nos. 586, 587) measure 30 x 21 and 29 x 21 mm. 



One was nearly covered with adhesive dirt, looking like 

 that left by termites, though it was a fresh egg. 



[Eggs Nos. 58G and 587 are of a regular oval form, 

 slightly glossy; the ground-colour is creamy- white wdth small 

 spots and rounded blotches of dark vandyke-brown and 

 various shades of grey, mostly confined to the larger 

 end.— O.-G.] 



HiRUNDO SENEGALENSIS. 



Reich. V. A. ii. p. 415. 



No. 4300. S (testes rather large). Bitye, July 1910. 



This, the only specimen obtained, was sliot with bow and 

 arrow while it was getting clay on the path. The claws 

 were remarkably sharp. 



PsALiDOPROCNE PETiTi. [Nguleyebc,] 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1901, p. 621 ; 1907, p. 444. 



An immature bird. No. 4294 has the under side brown, 

 quite light and greyish on the abdomen. No. 3508 has 

 some greyish-brown feathers among the new black ones. 



No. 3954, a sitting female with two empty ovum-sheaths 

 in the ovarj'^, was brought to me with a nest, consisting of a 

 pile of moss-like Usnea, and two white eggs. All were said 

 to have been dug out of a hole in the side of a pit made to 

 catch animals. The eggs have little gloss, and are very 

 long, measuring 21 X 13 and 20 X 13 mm. respectively. 



When I was having clay dug from a pit for making hricks, 

 three pairs of these little black Swallows were seen during 

 several days, sailing close over the pit whenever the work- 

 boys were away. They had probably begun excavating to a 

 slight extent ; if so, they never alighted to work, but took a 

 mouthful of earth in passing — I could not be certain 

 whether they did this or not. They always passed in pairs, 

 and were often heard to utter a low " weeping " note. 

 Usually these birds are perfectly silent. 



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