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where I went camping for a few days. (The village of 
Bitye is ten or fifteen miles from the Ja.) Swallows of this 
species were often seen during the four days passed in this 
camp, perched on snags or projecting dead branches over 
the water, or skimming over the surface of the river. They 
were never seen away from the water for a moment, and 
could only be obtained by fishing them out of the river after 
they were shot. 
977. Psalidoprocne nitens. [Nguleyebe, or Nguleyem.] 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1907, p. 444. 
No. 2642. $ . Akok (between Efulen and Kribi), July 
18, 1907. 
No. 2872. $ . Bitye, R. Ja, Jan. 20, 1908. 
The last is the first specimen of this species obtained at the 
Ja, where the common species of Psalidoprocne is P. petiti. 
I had supposed that P. petiti was the only species at the 
Ja, and P. nitens the only one near the coast. But my getting 
this specimen, and likewise seeing P. petiti , which is easily 
distinguished from the other by its forked tail, along the 
road more than halfway from Bitye to the coast, shews that 
the territories of the two species overlap. 
Both the specimens recorded above were sitting birds, dug 
out of their holes in banks of streams. (See note in ‘ The 
ibis/ 1907, p. 445.) In the hole dug out at Bitye were 
two eggs (which got broken) lying on a nest or a bed of the 
Usnea or “ beard of trees.” In the hole at Akok, which was 
near the top of a bank of loose clay, some four or five feet 
above the stream, and extended into the bank a foot and 
a half, enlarged as it penetrated in, was an ample nest of 
moss and Usnea , with two eggs. These both measured the 
same—19 x 13 mm. 
[One egg of a rather long, pointed oval form, slightly 
glossy and uniform white.—O.-G.] 
In my former note I spoke of two of these birds visiting 
my house at Efulen, looking for a nesting-place. 1 have 
lately seen a much more remarkable though similar action. 
While sitting in the house of a missionary at Ebolwoa, 
