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well marked, in others scarcely visible ; the ground-colour of the belly varies also from 
pale to dark ochre-yellow. The type specimen in the Bremen Museum has the upper 
parts, the throat, and breast washed strongly with a singular cinnamomeous rufous, 
which is not so distinctly visible in any of Mr. Jesse’s specimens. The measurements 
also vary much. 
A more complete description of this new species, which was first obtained by Von 
Heuglin on the Somali coast, will be given in the ‘ Birds of East Africa, as cited above. 
Dr. v. Heuglin collected this species also in the Bogos country, where it seems to be 
very abundant. 
It bears a great resemblance to C. tristigma, Riipp. (Syst. Uebers. t. 3. s.n. polioce- 
phalus), of which I have examined the type specimen; but the latter has a large white 
patch on the throat, and is larger (al. nearly 7”). The absence of white patches on the 
chin, throat, and ears, and of a well-marked neck-collar, is an important peculiarity of 
this species.—O. F. 
[Eye black; beak flesh-colour, tipped with black; legs and feet grey, middle toe 
serrated. 
Of this species a series of ten specimens was procured from Koomayli, Ain, and Kokai, 
where it was plentiful—VW. J.] 
Fam. CYPSELID/. 
25. CYPSELUS APUS (Linn. ). 
Cypselus barbatus, Gurney, Ibis, 1868, p. 152. 
apus, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 22. no. 68. 
Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 105. 
Cypselus, sp.?, no. 11 et 12, Heugl. J. f. Orn. 1861, p. 422. 
Cf. Sclat. Monogr. Cypsel. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 599. 
a. 3d. Senafé. April 24. 
6. d. Maragaz. July 27. 
c. 6. Maragaz. July 27. 
d. 3d. Maragaz. July 27. 
e. Maragaz. July 27. 
f 
g 
. do. Gelamet. August 11. 
. 6. Gelamet. August 11 (no. 43). 
The fine series of our common Swift in the collection of Mr. Jesse gives me a 
welcome opportunity of making some remarks on the occurrence of that species in 
Africa, a subject which I have been intending to treat of for a long time, having been 
able to give a great deal of attention to the subject. Dr. Sclater, in his valuable 
‘Monograph of the Cypselide,’ notices a South-African Cypselus as being different 
from our well-known species in its lighter colouring above, and also in having the 
feathers of the lower part of the back, belly, and under wing-coverts margined with 
white. Such specimens are labelled “ Cypselus barbatus” in the Leyden Museum—a 
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