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The range of this species appears to be limited to the Gold Coast, wliere, according
to Messrs. Shelley aud Buckley (Ibis, 1872, p. 288), it " is very plentiful throughout the
country, especially iu the more wooded districts, where during the heat of the day
llocks may be seen sitting together on the more shaded dead boughs of the large trees,
and may frequently be met with after the sun lias set, still iu pursuit of insects.”
Governor Ussher gives similar information, but adds:—“ I have observed them also in
considerable numbers in the morning, collecting iu bare gravelly places, and lying on the
ground enjoying the iiiorniug sun.” Mr. Blissett forwarded us examples from tho
Province of AVasa.
The iigure in the Plate has been drawn from a specimen in Capt. Shelley’s
collectiou, the description being taken from the ‘ Catalogue of Birds iu the Britisii
Museum.’
P S A L I D O P R O C N E C H A L Y B E A . UAc/ienoir.
CAAIBROONS ROUGH-AA’INGEl) SAA^ALLOAVl
Psalidoprocne chalyhea, Reichen. Ber. Allg. deutsch. orn. Ges., Sept. 1892, p. 0.
P . similis P . ohscurce, sed u ito re chalybeo oliva sc ente d istin g u en d a .
Hub. in m o u tib u s C ame ronensibus Africa: occ identa lis.
A d d i . S im ila r to P . obtcura, b u t d istin g u ish ed b y its s te c ly -o liv e colour. Black, ivitli a grc cuisb steel
gloss, th e ba ck shillin g olive -grc cu ; tho u n d e r surfa c e o f tllo body d u l le r ; u n d e r iving-cove rts
a sh y browu ; ta il forked.
Hab. i l o u u t AHctoria, Camcroons, AVest Afric a .
in is Swallow we have not seen, and the above descriptions are coiiied from Dr. Reidie-
now’s original jiaper.
Ibe species was discovered in the Cameroon Mountains on Mount A’ictoria iiy
Dr. Preuss, aud the type is in the Berlin Aluseum.
For the geographical distribution of this species, vide suprà, Plate 113 [Map].
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