192 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant on Birds 



The measurements are as follows : — 



Wing. Tail, 



mm. mm. 



c?- Parimau 120 51 



c?. WataikwaR 118 -19 



c^. Parimau 118 48 



S. „ 117 51 



d?. „ 117 50 



(?. „ 116 50 



(?. „ 116 49 



$. „ 119 49 



?. Upper Miraika R. ... 116 (in moult) 49 



Mr. Stresemann, iji his original description, based on 

 specimens in the Tring Museum collected by A. S. Meek on 

 the Setakwa River, states that the tarsus is unfeathered in this 

 species ; but this is not really the case, as is proved by our 

 series, while a careful examination of the series in Trinsf 

 reveals the fact that feathers are present on some of those 

 specimens also. The small feathers on the tarsi are very 

 easily rubbed off either in the skinning or by the thread 

 fastening the label, and the character is one not altogether 

 to be relied on. 



" This little Swift was an exceedingly common species, 

 and was seen everywhere hawking over the tops of the jungle. 

 Looking down from the mountains over the jungle below, it 

 might be seen in hundreds, and was quite one of the features 

 of the landscape. Towards evening it would come down and 

 hawk along the rivers, and it was at such times that we were 

 able to secure specimens." — C. H. B. G. 



Collocalia hirundinacea excelsa. 



Collocalia hiruvdinacca excelsa Ogilvie-Grant, Bull. B.O.C 

 XXXV. p. 34(1914). 



a, b. (^ ? . Camp 11, Utakwa River, 8000 ft., 8th Feb. 

 1913. [_C. B. K.] {Types of the subspecies.) 



Adult male and female. Similar to C. hirundinacea Strese- 

 mann, but much larger and with the quills of the wings 



