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Hirondelle à ventre ronx de Senegal, Baubent. PI. Enl. vii. pi. 310.
Hirundo senegalensis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 315 (1766); Swains, lì. M’. Afr. ii. p. 72,
pi. 0 (1837); Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 58 (1845); id. Oat. Pissir. Brit. Mus. p. 23
(1848) ; Jnrd. Contr. Orn. 1849, p. 4 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 339 (1850) ; Ilartl. Orn.
W^estafr. p. 27 (1857) ; Dubois, Ois. Eur. pi. 35 (1862) ; Ilartl. J. f. O. 1869,
p. 103 ; Gray, Dand-l. B. i. p. 09, no. 790 (1869) ; Ueugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 156
(1869) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 316 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1872, p. 71 ; Shelley &
Buckley, t. c. p. 288 ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. iv. App. p. Ivii (1874) ; Ussher,
Ibis, 1874, p. 62; Eeichen. Corresp. Afrik. Goscllsoh. Berlin, 1873, no. 178; id.
J. f. O. 1873, p. 21; Sharpe & Bouv. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i. p. 37 (1870);
De Eocbehr. Pann. Sénóg., Ois. p. 219 (1884) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov!
(2), i. p. 120 (1884); Shai'ije, Cat. Birds in Brit. Mus. x. p. 168 (1885).
Hirundo rufula, Gould, B. Eur. ii. pi. 85 (1837, nec Temm.).
Ceeropis senegalensis. Less. Compì. Buff. viii. p. 498 (1837) ; Boie, Isis, 1814,
p. 174; Bupp. Syst. Uehers. p. 22 (1845) ; Cass. Cat. Hiruud. Mus. Philad. Acad,
p. 3 (1853) ; Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 16 (1856) ; Bouvier, Cat. Ois. Marche
&o. p. 9.
Hirundo melanocrissns (nec Rupp.), Heugl. J. f. O. 1862, p. 297.
Ceeropis melanocrissns, Antin. Cat. desor. Ucc. p. 25 (1805) ; Salvad. Atti 11 Accad
Torino, 1870, p. 728.
H. uropygio r u f o ; p ileo dorso c o n c o lo ri; s n b lù s unico lo r, g u l f nU id d ; rc c tric ib u s n o n in in im b albo
m a cula tis.
Hab. in A fric a oc c id en ta li e t in A fric a s e p te n trio n a li-o rie n ta li.
Above p u rp lish b lu e ; sid e s o f th e he ad an d ba ck o f th e n e ck , a lm o s t fo rm in g a n u c h a l colla r, as well as
th e e n tire rum p , d e ep s ie n n a ; q nills d u ll b la ck s lig h tly glossed w ith blu e ; u p p e r ta il-co v e rts dull
p urplish b lu e J ta il-fe a th e rs b la ck , u n sp o tte d ; th ro a t a n d ch e ek s huffy w hite, as also a re th e u n d e r
wnig-covcrts ; r e s t o f th e u n d e rp a rts de ep c h e s tn u t; b ill b la c k ; fe e t very d a rk b rown. To ta l
lengtli 9 inche s, w in g 5 7 , ta il 4 7 .
M e l.avc n o t seen any in d ic a tio n s o f a n ap p ro a ch to H. m o n te iri, tlioiigli b o th th is species a n d / / . sene-
galensis o c cu r on th e Congo. T h e specimen o f H. senegalensis from L a n d a n a , in C ap t. S h e lley ’s
colle c tion, is r a th e r w h ite r o n th e th ro a t th a n o th e rs from th e Gold C o a st, a n d tliu s somewha t
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