52 BIRDS OF DAMARA LAND. 



64. Hirundo dimidiata, Sundev. Pearly-breasted Swallow. 



Hirundo dimidiata, Sundevall, Ofvers. 1850, p. 107. 



Hirundo scapidaris, Cassin, in Pr. Ac. Phil. 1850, pi. 12. %. 3. 



Hirundo dimidiata, Layard'a Cat. No. 87. 



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



„ „ Finsch & Hartlaub's Vogel Ost-Afrika's, p. 133. 



„ „ Shai-pe, in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1870, p. 310. 



These Swallows are tolerably common in Damara 

 Land, where they arrive about November ; but on the 

 Okavango River I have seen them as early as the 1st of 

 September. They do not stay any great length of time 

 in Damara Land, in fact barely long enough to rear 

 their young. 



In December 1863 a pair of these birds took up their 

 abode in my dining-room at Objimbinque, where they 

 half completed a nest and then abandoned it ; another 

 pair (at least I conjectured that they were not the same) 

 after a time continued the labour ; but finally they also 

 abandoned the nest whilst still incomplete ; the next 

 season, however, it was finished, probably by the original 

 projectors, and the parent birds safely brought up their 

 young. 



The nest of this Swallow is cup-shaped, and the eggs 

 pure white. The irides in this species are dark brown; 

 the bill, legs, and toes are black. 



65. CotUe fdigula, LioM. Fawn-breasted Martin. 



L' Hirondelle fauve, Levaillant's Ois. d'Afr. pi. 246. fio-. 1. 

 Cotyle fidigula, Layard's Cat. No. 89. 



Hirundo rupestris, Chapman's Travels in S. Afr., App. p. 409. 

 CoUjh fuligula, Sharpe, in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1870, p. 299. 

 „ „ Sharpe's Cat. No. 425. 



This Martin is common in Damara and Great Namaqua 



