HIRUNDO NIGRORUFA, i5oe./ry.. 



RUFOUS-AND-BLACK SWALLOTT. 



Sirundo nigrorufa. Socage, Jorn. Lisb. vi. p. 158 (1877), p. 256 (1878) ; id. op. cit. 

 vii. p. 236 (1880) ; id. Orn. Angola, p. 546 (1881) ; Sbarpe, ed. Layard's B. S. AiV. 

 p. 840 (1884) ; id. Cat. Birds in .Brit. Mus. x. p. 150 (1885). 



H. uropygio et jjileo dorso concoloribus ; subtiis castanea, subcaudalibus purpm-eo-cieruleis. 

 Hah. in provincia Augoleiisi Africa; occidentalis. 



Adult male. General colour above glossy purpli.sli blue, witli a concealed rufous uudcrsliadc, onlv seen 

 when the featbers are disturbed ; wing-coverts like the back, with a smoky-brown patch on tlie 

 inner web of the innermost greater coverts ; quills black, glossed with purplish blue cxteriiallv, 

 the secondaries entirely of the latter colour, resembling the back ; tail-feathers l)Iack glossed 

 with blue, the three outer feathers with a fringe of white towards the end of the inner web, not 

 pronounced enough to form a spot ; head like the liack ; lores velvety black: car-coverts like 

 the erowu ; cheeks and under surface of body chestnut, with a patcli of jiurplisli Iduc on each 

 side of the upper breast; thighs chestnut; vmder tail-coverts glossy purplish blue; iimhT -wiuir- 

 coverts and axillaries chestnut like the breast; quills sooty black below: "iris rlicstnut " 

 {Anchieta). Total length 5'3 inches, culnien 0-3, wing I'So, tail 2-G, tarsus O-I. 



Hab. Benguela. 



This jn-etty Swallow is apj)arentl)' confined to the district of Benguela, in llic soiiilicni 

 part of the Portuguese province of Angola; at least it is so far only kimwn lidui tlmi 

 locality. At present Senhor Anchieta has met with but three specinious. ;ill friuii tlic 

 neighboui'hood of Caconda. The Lisbon Museum, through Professor Barbuza (hi Jhicage, 

 was good enough to present one of these specimens to the British ^Museum, and IVoin 

 it the above description has been taken. Nothing has as yet been recorded of the 

 liabits or mode of uidiiication of the species. 



The iigure in the Plate has been drawn from the above-mentioned cxamplr iu the 

 British Museum. 



