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a. g. Rayrayguddy. April 27th (no. 109). 
b. 3. Bejook. July 18th (no. 1282). 
[Iris dark brown; beak black; legs and feet black. 
Another specimen procured at Bejook in July —W. J.] 
29. Hirunpo atTuiorica, Blanf. 
Hirundo ethiopica, Blanf. Ann. N. H. ser. 4. iv. p. 8329 (1869). 
Cecropis rufifrons, Heugl. Syst. Uebers. no. 113; Brehm, Habesch, p. 209. no. 26. 
a. 3. Kokai. July 18th (no. 1818). 
b. 2. Bejook. July 17th (no. 1368). 
This Swallow has often been confounded with the Hirundo albigularis, Strick. 
(Contrib. to Orn. 1849, t.17; H. albigula, Bp. Consp. p. 338), from South Africa, being 
exactly similar in colours, but distinguishable at once by the smaller size. 
Long. al. Rect. ext. 
3" 10"~4!" 2" gitar 5” |. ethiopica. N.E. Africa. 
4 9-5 29-2 10. . . albigularis. S. Africa. 
The steel-blue band across the jugulum is sometimes ill defined and incomplete. 
Levaillant’s figure and description of his “ Hirondelle a front roux” (pl. 246. f. 2; 
H. rufifrons, Vieill. Enc. Méth. p. 524) are incorrect in having the chin and throat 
black, but are most probably referable to the southern species. 
H. ethiopica is the common House-swallow in South Nubia, Cordofahn, Sennahr, and 
Bogosland; Von Heuglin gives interesting notices about its breeding in the Bogos 
country. It is strange that Riippell has overlooked a species so common as this.—0. F. 
[Iris dark brown. 
Two specimens procured at Kokai; not observed elsewhere.—W. J.] 
30. Hirunpo PUELLA, Temm. 
Hirundo puella, Temm. Fauna Japon. p. 33 (1842). 
abyssinica, Guér. Rev. Zool. 1848, p. 822; id., Ferret et Galinier, Voy. en Abyss. Atlas, t. 10. 
Cecropis striolata, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 22. no. 74, t.6; Heugl. Syst. Uebers. no. 115; Brehm, 
Habesch, p. 209. no. 25; Finsch & Hartl. Vogel Ostafr. p. 140. no. 57. 
a. 6. Senafé. May 21st, 1868 (no. 1486). 
6. 6. Rayrayguddy. April 27th, 1868 (no. 481). 
c. 6. Rayrayguddy. May 27th, 1868. 
There is no difference between specimens from Western and North-eastern Africa. 
Temminck’s name has the priority.—0O. F. 
[Iris dark brown; beak black; legs and feet black. 
Rayrayguddy and Senafé, May and June; not observed in the plains, nor on the 
Anseba. It was found associating with Atticora pristoptera and Cotyle fuligula.— 
W. J.) 
