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d front roux ("Ois. d'Air." pi. 245, f. 2), with the whole 

 throat and upper breast black, and adds that it is the 

 H. nififrons of Shaw. The synonymy is : — 



1. M. rufifrons, VieiU. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xiv. p. 521.— Enc. 



Meth. p. 524. — Hirondelle A front roux, Le VaiUant Ois. d'Afr. pi. 

 245, fig. 2. — Stephens, Shaw's Zoology, Aves, x. p. 91. — Bp. Oonsp. 

 p. 318. Sundevall cm Le VaiU. Ois. d'Afr. p. 51. 

 (I cannot help suspecting that Le Vaillant's plate is founded on a 



bad specimen of H. rustica from Senegal, perhaps restored or 



manufactured.) 



2. S. albigula/ris, Strickland (loc. cit.), — H. rufifrons, Vieill. apud Lesson, 



Traitd d'Omith. p. 268, nee Vieill. — H. alhigula, Bonp. Consp. p. 338. 



3. H. cethiopica, sp. no v. ut supra. 



(If, as appears highly probable, Vieillot's name must be given up as 

 being applicable to a manufactured or imaginary bird. No. 2 will 

 stand as H. rufifrons, Less. Stricjdand's name is to be preferred, 

 to avoid ambiguity.) 



loi. H. ruficeps, Licht. 



Verz. d. Doubl. des Zool. Mus. Berl. p. 58. — Ferr. et Gal. iii. 



No. 225. 

 Cecropis filieomdata, Eiipp. Syst. Uebers. No. 75. 

 Uhromitus filifera, Brehm, Habesch, No. 28. 

 H. filifera, Heugl. Om. N. 0. Afr. No. 115. 



I only saw this Swallow once, when I shot a pair, a 

 male and female, sitting together on a spray overhanging 

 a small stream near Agula, about half-way between 

 Adigrat and Antalo. The outer taU feathers are very 

 much shorter than is usual in Indian specimens, and I 

 am far from convinced that the species are identical. If 

 they be, of course the prior name of H.Jilifera, Stephens, 

 must apply. 



In both the specimens shot by me, the chin, throat, 

 and breast are pale buflF, with an imperfect dusky pectoral 

 band, much more marked in the female. In the original 



