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'Hie Jiirds of (land)Ut. 
(Ill tilt' larsiis,— pri'seiit in ri jin r 'ui , ;il)suiit in <-iiii-l<t. One, shot in December 
1 !)()(') out of a number hawking -iboiit a small \ alley near Burreng, possessed 
these tut'ts and was therefore ('. r/imr/d, but most of those one sees jirobably 
belong to the other species. 
Of the true Swallows f ////v/z/rA/y seven species from the ranges given 
in tliu Hand List should occur in the Gambia ; T know live dift'ereiu kinds at 
least, though I am not iiuite certain that I can fit all of them into their 
jiroper i)laces. 
Ifn-Hwlu i H.'^i;,;,. (COMMON SWALLOW. 
/x'liiii/c. Eurojie and Asia; Africa in Winter. (//.Lj. Certainly a 
legnlar visitor to the Gambia. In April, 1907, I have a note "that a good 
many Swallows with red throats, obviously laiger than the common Red- 
throated Swallow here f //. hiciila), are jiassing Bathurst, all moving north ; 
these must be English Swallows." I have seen the same birds on other 
occasions in the Gambia, and on nearly every voyage out, at the end of 
October, we get a good many common Swallows on board all the way down 
the African coast. 
//. lHvi<]a. 
/I'd/ii/f. Senegambia. (ILL.) 
This is the sjiecies commonly know as "the Singing Swallow " in 
Bathurst, a name which it cpiite deserves for the sweet notes of its softly 
wai'bled song. It is everywhere plentiful and resident all the year round 
with us : it Ineeds from about May onwards, making mud nests in the 
the verandahs of the Ijathurst himses, while uji-country it builds under the 
eaves of or inside the native huts under their grass roofs, and also on the 
steep sides of the ironstone ridges and occasionally in deserted white-ant 
hills. The nests have generally a few feathers, etc., mixed with the mud, 
and one in my verandah was mainly made up of pieces of crumpled brown 
pa])er mixed with mud, with the result that a most serviceable structure 
(maxinnim strength at the cost of the minimum of mud-carrying) was 
oblainc<l. 
It is a smaller bird than //. nixtica (G instead of 7 inches long), but its 
jilumage is almost exactly like that of that species — a rich blue-l;lack above 
and white below with rufous throat and forehead. The bill and feet are 
black, the irides sepia. 
//. aelliid/i/i'ii. 
N(ui!/fi. North-east and East Africa ; West Africa, the Niger to 
Senegamliia. ( ILL.) 
Still smaller than 11. hic/da, from which species it differs in having a 
white (or in the young, a pale fawn) instead of a rufous throat and a black 
collar interrupted in the centre. 
//. JeitroHOind . 
HdiKje. Senegambia to Gaboon. ( LL.L.) 
Another small Swallow about the same size as the last ; it is entirely 
blue above without any rufous forehead. 
A small Swallow without any rufous on the Ijreast or throat is very 
common up the river at all seasons, and seems to breed nearly all the year 
round, as I have a note to the effect tliat " the white-breasted Swallows were 
