locality. A bird obtained by the same gentleman at Rayrayguddy is in Capt. Wardlaw 

 Ramsay's collection, and was referred by us in 1870 to C. rupestris. In those days 

 we were inclined to regard C. rufigiila as a small northern form of C. fuUgula, and did 

 not attach a name to it ; but as it has since been named by Drs. Fischer and Reichenow, 

 it is as well to recognize it under their title. It cannot, however, be considered 

 more than a race of C. fuUgula, intermediate between that species and C. concolor of 

 India. All references to C. fuUgula in North-eastern Africa doubtless refer to the 

 present bird. 



The late Marquis Antinori, during the Italian expedition to Shoa, procured a 

 specimen at Mahal-Uouz on the 30th of April. Besides the above-mentioned habitats of 

 this Rock-Martin, it has also been noticed by the late Dr. Fischer at the Naiwascha 

 Lake in Masai-land. Here he met with it in rocky ravines on the south-eastern shore 

 of the lake, where it was noticed in small numbers flying over the surface of the ground 

 and swooping upwards to the steep rocks, where the birds had their nests. 



The specimen described is in the British Museum, and the example figured was 

 procured by Antinori in Shoa, and sent by Count Salvadori to the authors for 

 identification. Having been preserved in spirit, the colours are rather bleached. The 

 appearance of the examples iu the Museum is decidedly darker. 



