PSALIDOPROCNE ANTINORII, sdhad. 



ANTINOBTS ROUGH- WINGED SWALLOW. 



Psalidoprocne antinoril, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. (2) i. p. 123 (1884) ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds in Brit. Mus. x. p. 205 (1885). 



P. pileo dorso concolore : subalaribus albis. 



Hab. in Africa septentrionali-orientali usque ad provinciam Zambesiauiam. 



Adult. General colour above sooty brown with a greenish gloss ; wing-coverts like the back ; quills and 

 tail-feathers brown, externally glossed with greenish ; crown of head, sides of face, and under 

 surface of body sooty brown, excepting the under wing-coverts and axillaries, which are pure 

 white; quills ashy below : " bill black, feet dusky, iris dusky" [Antinori) . Total length 5 inches, 

 culmen 025, wing 3"9, tail 2T, tarsus O3o. 



The typical specimen from Shoa measured as follows : — Total length 5 - 5 inches, culmen 0"25, 

 wing 4'15, tail 2'95, tarsus 0"35. 



Hab. Eastern Africa, from Shoa to the Zambesi. 



Antinori's Swallow is closely allied to P. petith and P. fuliginosa, but is easily distin- 

 guishable by its white under wing-coverts and axillaries. In this respect it resembles 

 P. prlstoptera, but is sooty brown instead of blue. 



It was discovered in Shoa by the late Marquis Antinori, at a place called Denz, on 

 the 27th of May, 1880 ; and in a small parcel of birds presented to the British Museum 

 by Sir John Kirk in 1884 (a remnant of his collections made during the Livingstone 

 Expedition on the Zambesi and Shire rivers) there was a damaged skin of this Swallow. 

 It is probable, therefore, that it inhabits the whole of the interior of Eastern Africa 

 from Shoa to the northern shores of the Zambesi. 



The description is taken from Sir John Kirk's specimen, and the figure has been 

 drawn by Mr. Wyatt from the type specimen, which was sent to England by our friend 

 Count Salvadori. 



