50 BIRDS OF DAMARA LAND. 



and two others from Ondonga, are in the collection of Mr. R. 

 B. Sharpe.— Ed.J 



62. Hinindo rustica, Linn. Chimney-Swallow. 



Hirundo rustica, Gould's Birds of Europe, pi. 54. 



„ „ Strickland & Selater, Birds Damar., Contr. to Orn. 



1852, p. 144. 

 ,, „ Layard's Cat. No. 79. 



„ „ Chapman's Travels in S. Afr., App. p. 410. 



„ „ (part.), Fmsch & Hartlaub's Vogel Ost-Afrika's, 



p. 134. 

 „ „ Sharpe & Dresser, in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1870, p. 244. 



This well-known species is pretty common in Damara 

 and Great Namaqua Land during the rainy season, and 

 I have found it very numerous at Walvisch Bay and in 

 other localities near the coast. 



In uncivilized parts of Africa these Swallows affix their 

 nests to some projection of a rock or trunk of a tree, or 

 occupy cavities in rocks or banks. 



The iris is dark brown, the bill black, the legs brownish. 



Measurements of a male and a female : — 



[Messrs. Sharpe and Dresser, in their paper in the Zoological 

 Society's ' Proceedings ' above referred to, have recorded some 

 interesting facts relative to the changes of plumage which this 

 species undergoes during its migration to Southern Africa. — Ed.J 



63. Hirundo CUCUllata, Bodd. Eouselline Swallow. 



L'Hirondelle rouselUne, Levaillant's Ois. d'Afr. pi. 245. fig. 1. 



