is frequently to be found basking in the open roads and rolling itself in the dust, or, as 

 the natives express it, ' washing itself.' " 



The late Mr. L. Eraser obtained this Swallow at Abomey, and MM. Verreaux 

 received specimens from Gaboon, where Mr. DuChaillu met with it on the Ogowe River. 

 Dr. Lucan procured one specimen on the Congo ; and in the Lisbon Museum there is a 

 single example from Angola, collected by Dr. Welwitsch. Prof. Barboza du Bocage 

 thinks that although no ticket is attached to the specimen, there can be no doubt of its 

 authenticity, and that it was doubtless obtained to the north of the Quanza. 



The description is copied from the British-Museum ' Catalogue of Birds,' and is taken 

 from a specimen in the national collection. 



