tree or bush. This species did not seem to be very strong on the wing, for after flying 

 np and down for a few moments, both birds repeatedly rested for some time. I shot one, 

 which proved to be the female, but judging from what I saw of the living birds, the 

 male did not appear to diifer in colour. I unfortunately did not secure the latter ; for, 

 immediately on the fall of his mate, he flew up high in the air and disappeared. In 

 September I saw another individual sitting in exactly the same place where I had 

 already killed the previous one, but I was obliged to abstain from shooting it, for fear of 

 hitting some nigger boys who were in the neighbourhood. The call-note of this bird is 

 like that of Hlrnuclo rustica, but I did not hear any song. The present species is known 

 to the inhabitants as an occasional visitor, and is called by some of them Pascnsha, by 

 others Undnrinha. They also assert that it is found all through the year in the high 

 mountains in the interior of the island, and comes sometimes to the shore." 



The late Governor Ussher observed the present species during his expedition up the 

 River Volta, and thus records the circumstance : — 



" I never met with this Martin but once, up the Volta, where I shot it on a 

 bough overhanging the water ; but as great numbers of Swallows appeared skimming 

 the surface of the w^ater, I do not doubt that C. cincta was among them. The specimen 

 then collected was one of a pair." 



In North-eastern Africa we know more of the present species. Dr, von Heuglin 

 writes : — 



" This Swallow is a migratory bird iu K.E. Africa. Eiippell met with it in the 

 province of Barakit, and I found it near Adowa, at Mareb, and along the brooks of the 

 provinces Dembea and Emfag, Avhich feed the Tana Lake, from the beginning of May 

 throughout the rainy season ; and lastly in October, above a marsh between Tejura and 

 Ghubet-harab, on the Adail coast ; here, perhaps, in the act of migrating. It lives only 

 in pairs, and breeds at the end of jMay on the high banks of torrents, in horizontal 

 burrows dug by itself. I was never able to reach the nest itself, owing to its position. 

 It is generally not much above the surface of the water, and just above deep places which 

 could only be reached by swimming." 



Mr. W. T. Blanford states that, during the Abyssinian Expedition he twice met 

 with this Martin, " first on tlie shores of Lake Ashangi in April, and again about a fort- 

 night later on the banks of a stream near Antalo." 



Sir W. C. Harris procured a specimen at Angollala in Shoa, and it was also found 

 by the late Marquis Antinori at Daimbi, in the Adda Galla country, in May, and again 

 at Mahal- Uouz and the ' Kolla' of Mantek in August. He says that it was plentiful on 

 Lake Cialalaka, which is in the Adda Galla district. Dr. Ragazzi met wdth it at Ula in 

 May, at Hora in June, and at Daimbi iu June. In the collection presented by Emiu 

 Pasha to the British Museum were two female specimens obtained by him at Wadelai in 

 Eebruary and October. 



The descriptions are taken from the British Museum ' Catalogue/ and the bird 

 figured is in Captain Shelley's collection. 



