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HIRUNDO ERYTHROPYGIA [cmtea, p. 371]. 



Add:— 



Hirundo enjthropijgia, Sharpe & Wyatt, Monogr. Hirund. pt. xiv. (1890). 



'For the geographical distribution of this species, vide infra, Plate 82 [Map]. 



HIRUNDO MELANOCRISSA [antea, p. 379]. 



Add:— 



Hirundo melanocrissa, Sharpe & Wyatt, Monogr. Hirund. pt. iv. (1886) ; Salvad. 

 Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. (2) vi. p. 231 (1888). 



Procured by Dr. L\agazzi in Shoa, at GasciamuKi in April, at Let-Marafia in May and 

 November, at Buscoftu in June, and at Dens in July. In the latter month young birds 

 were obtained, which Count Salvadori describes for the first time. He says that the 

 three specimens had only just left the nest ; they were much smaller than the adults, 

 with the black of the upper parts less intense and having a greenish reflection, the inner 

 secondaries having a reddish tip, the rump of a duller rufous than the adults, but the 

 under surface of the body brighter, more or less variegated on the breast with blackish. 

 Por the geographical distribution of this species, vide infra, Plate 79 [Map]. 



HIRUNDO DOMICELLA [antea, p. 381]. 

 Add: — 

 Hirundo domicella, Sharpe & Wyatt, Monogr. Hirund. pt. ii. (1885). 

 Hirundo rufula togoensis, L\eichenow, J. f. 0. 1891, p. 382. 



H. togoensis was discovered by Dr. Biittner in Togo Land, in February. Two spe- 

 cimens were obtained on the 16th and 21st of that month, and Dr. E-eichenow points 

 out that the species is very like H. rufula, but is distinguished by its smaller size, 

 shorter wings, by the entire absence of stripes underneath, and by the deeper chestnut- 

 red colour of the nape. 



Dr. P^eichenow, in answer to our inquiries, tells us that he was at first inclined to 

 refer the Togo-Land specimens to U. domicella, but he points out that in this species 

 the under tail-coverts are described as " glossy steel-blue " in the ' Catalogue of Birds.' 

 In his examples of H. togoensis, he says, the under tail-coverts have only the tips blue, 

 but the base pale, as in H. rufula, of which he considers U. togoensis to be a race. The 

 rump, however, is described by him as uniform rufous, not shading off paler as in 



