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whole of the inner web white, except a black border at the tip; a 
narrow interrupted band across the breast, below the red throat, 
steel-blue ; rest of the breast and under tail-coverts ash-coloured, a 
little paler in the centre of the breast, the under tail-coverts washed 
with rufous, each feather margined with pale grey, and having a little 
heart-shaped blue mark before the end of the feather, the black shaft 
being also strongly defined; under wing-coverts dark ashy grey, 
washed on the edge of the wing with steel-blue; beak and legs 
black. 
Hab. Angola: Huilla, Pungo-Andongo, Ambaca (Anchieta), Am- 
briz (Monteiro). 
4. HiruNpbo LUCIDA. 
Hirundo lucida, Verr. Journ. f. Orn. 1858, p. 42 ; Hartl. Journ. 
f. Orn. 1861, p. 103; Gray, Hand-l. of B. i. p. 68 (1869) ; Sharpe, 
P. Z. 8. 1869, p. 567. 
Above most brilliant steel-blue, inclining to indigo ; wing-coverts 
dark blackish brown, glossed with steel-blue above, the innermost 
cubital feathers with a white spot on the inner web; tail deep steel- 
blue, all the feathers except the two middle ones for the most part 
pure white on the inner web, so that the tips and the part immedi- 
ately edging the graduated extremity of the feather is black; a di- 
stinct though narrow frontlet and the entire throat deep brick-red ; a 
band across the breast, below the red throat, bright steel-blue, broad 
at the sides and narrow in the centre of the breast; rest of the 
under surface of the body pure white, with a few dusky feathers on 
the flanks, and marked with narrow blue lines, more distinct in some 
specimens than in others; bill and feet black. 
Hab. River Gambia (Mus. R. B. S.). 
5, HirunbDo ALBIGULARIS. 
Hirundo albigularis, Strick]. Contr. Orn. 1849, p. 17, pl. 15. 
Hirundo albigula, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 338 (1850) ; 
Mill. Journ. f. Orn. 1855, p. 4; Gurney, Ibis, 1865, p. 264; 
Layard, Birds of 8. Afr. p. 55 (1867); Gray, Hand-l. of B.i. p. 68 
(1869). 
Hirundo rufifrons, Less. Traité d’Orn. p. 268 (1831, nec Vieill.) ; 
Grill, Zoolog. Anteckn. p. 34 (1858). 
Above deep purplish blue ; quills dark blackish brown, with a faint 
gloss on the upper surface; the innermost cubital feathers marked 
on the interior web with a greyish white spot ; tail blackish brown, 
the two centre feathers unspotted, but all the others marked on the 
inner web with a large patch of white; forehead deep chestnut ; 
space between the bill and the eye and ear-coverts dusky black ; 
throat, cheeks, and sides of the neck white; below the throat a 
broad band of purplish-blue feathers, broad at the sides and narrow 
in the centre of the breast ; the rest of the under surface of the body 
dull white, greyish on the flanks ; bill black ; feet dark brown. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Layard); Natal (Ayres). 
