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Dr. Sclater has already pointed out the identity of Indian and African specimens of 
this species (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 603). After having examined numerous speci- 
mens from India, Palestine, Sennahr (s. n. caffer in Mus. Hein.), the Blue Nile, Anamaboé 
(Gold coast), St. Thomé, Iha do Principe, and the Cape, I am quite of the same opinion 
as Dr. Sclater, and can give some further additions to the knowledge of this species. 
The variableness in the intensity of colouring, the greater or less extension of the 
white gular patch of feathers, and the existence of a more or less visible paler super- 
ciliary stripe are as noticeable as in C. apus; young ones also show the whitish margina- 
tion on the feathers of the under parts. 
The specimens in Mr. Jesse’s collection agree in every respect with those from the 
Himalayas and Palestine; the latter show the white gular patch rather extended, and 
an ill-defined pale supraocular stripe, which is more visible in a Cape specimen in the 
Bremen Museum; the latter has on the feathers of the white gular patch a narrow 
dark central line. A specimen from St. Thomé agrees in this respect; but the plumage 
is darker, of a deep greenish black, like C. caffer. A specimen from Anamaboé is 
similar to the Himalayan one; but the feathers on the head and rump have light 
margins, and the gular patch is less extended and without dark central lines, A speci- 
men (¢) from the Blue Nile (collected by A. Brehm) is much lighter; the feathers on 
the head and under parts have pale narrow margins; the white gular patch is very 
extended, not being confined to a median patch, but beginning on each side of the 
mandible and covering the whole chin and throat to the jugulum; the primaries have, 
like the Anamaboé specimens, narrow light apical margins. C. caffer in the Museum 
Heineanum, which I examined, is this species. 
The measurements of the different specimens are as follow :— 
Long. al. Caud. Culm. Tars. 
Al git_5lt TL 7 fe — — . . . Bogosland. 
5 1 8 Qui ail, . . Palestine. 
410 iY = — . . . Himalaya. 
4 1 6 — — . . . South Africa. 
5 1 9 — eae Nile: 
5 ae oo — . . . St. Thomé. 
410 1 8 — — . . . tha do Principe. 
4 5 1 64 — — .. . Anamaboé.—O. F. 
[Common about Sooroo.— WW. J.] 
Fam. HIRUNDINID. 
28. ATTICORA PRISTOPTERA (Riipp.). 
Hirundo pristoptera, Riipp. Neue Wirbelth. t. 39. f. 2. 
Chelidon pristoptera, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 22. no. 81; Heugl. Syst. Uebers. no. 121. 
Atticora pristoptera, Brehm, Habesch, p. 209. no. 23. 
