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burg district of the Eastern Transvaal ; and Mr. F. A. Barratt procured specimens at 

 Rustenburg and Macaniac, where he says the species was rather scarce, and the ones 

 obtained were shot by him as they flew up and down in the open spaces in the forest. 



Nothing further is known of the range of the species in South Africa, but it appears 

 in the Zanzibar district in Eastern Africa, as Sir John Kirk sent a specimen from 

 Mambolo to Captain Shelley, who has kindly allowed us to examine it, and there can be 

 no doubt that it is identical with the South-African species. Dr. Eischer has likewise 

 procured a specimen at Maurui in Masai-land, in January, and it is possible that the 

 "black Swallow" noticed by Colonel Grant in his 'Walk across Africa,' along with 

 Psalidoprocne albiceps in Usinza, may have been of the present species, though at the 

 same time it may bave been the young of P. albiceps. 



The descriptions are taken from specimens in the British Museum, the figure in the 

 Plate being drawn from a Natal skin in the latter collection. 



