the creek, and in front of my verandah. They are very crepuscular in their hahits. I saw 

 them in the hills as far up the Uewa River as Naruku-ruku, mingled with the Swifts, 

 also at Kandavu, Loma-Loma, and Taviuni." 



Mr. L. C. Layard, in his account of tlie birds observed by him in the New Hebrides, 

 says that only six individuals of this Swallow were seen — one pair on Santo and two 

 pairs on Vate, out of which last three birds were procured. These were in a maize-field, 

 attracted by the insects put up by burning the grass. They perched on the tops of the 

 stalks. In Santo they were on trees overhanging water. The late John Macgillivray 

 obtained the species on the island of Aneiteum, and it was also met with at Api by the 

 'Challenger ' Expedition. Canon Tristram recorded the present species from the Solomon 

 Islands, wdiere it was obtained by Commander Richards at San Cristoval and St. Geoi'ge. 

 Count Salvador! was inclined to doubt the occurrence of R. taliitica in the Solomon 

 group, but Mr. C. M. Woodford has obtained perfectly typical examples in Guadalcanar 

 and Alu. In New Britain Dr. Finsch states that the bird is a migrant, and he does 

 not appear to have collected specimens, but the sjjecies has been obtained in the island 

 by Dr. Kleinschmidt. 



Mr. L. C. Layard has given the following note on the breeding of the species in the 

 New Hebrides : — 



" I found one nest on a ledge under an overhanging rock, made, as usual, of mud, 

 the depression lined with feathers. This was during the last week in August, and the 

 three eggs were just on the point of hatching. They are of a very pale pink ground- 

 colour, generally spotted throughout with brown-madder spots, which run very thickly 

 together, and form a ring at the greatest diameter. The only specimens obtained are 

 all more or less damaged in extracting the embryos, bat measure about, axis 10'", 

 diam. 6i"'." 



The descriptions of the present sjiecies have been taken from a pair of birds in the 

 British Museum, Avliile the figure has been drawn from a sj)ecimen in Mr. Seebohm's 

 collection. 



