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Show 1869.] MR. R. B. S H A R P E O N T H E B I R D S O F A N G O L A . 567 " No. 21. Male. River Loge."-J. J. M. This specimen scarcely agrees with Fantee specimens in m y collection. There is a greater amount of white edging on the tail, for instance, and there are other minor differences. 7. HIRUNDO ANGOLENSIS. (Plate XLIII.) Hirundo angolensis, Bocage, Jorn. Acad. Lisb. 1868, p. 10. "Ambriz, March 1869. Female. " Ambriz, April 1869."-J. J. M . This species has been recently described by Professor Barboza du Bocage (I. ci), and is a very interesting novelty. The two specimens sent by Mr. Monteiro agree with the description of the learned Professor ; and I herewith subjoin a detailed account of one of them for the benefit of ornithologists, as the bird was hitherto only known from the original specimen in the Lisbon Museum. Forehead, throat, and upper part of the breast deep brick-red; entire upper surface dark steel-blue ; tail gradually forked, the whole of the inner webs, except a black border at the tip, pure white, the two middle feathers steel-blue; a band across the breast below the red throat steel-blue; the rest of the breast and under tail-coverts ash-coloured, a little paler in the centre of the breast; the under tail-coverts washed with rufous, each feather margined with pale grey and having a little heart-shaped blue mark before the end of the feather, the black shaft being also strongly defined ; under wing-coverts dark ashy-grey, washed on the edge of the wing with steel-blue ; beak and legs black. As Professor Barboza du Bocage remarks, this Swallow belongs to the same group as H. rustica, but is easily distinguished by the colour of the under wing-coverts. Its nearest ally is a little Swallow from the river Gambia (Hirundo lucida, Verr.). I have long possessed a specimen of this latter Swallow, which I had supposed must be the Hirundo angolensis of Barboza; but the acquisition of a second and more adult bird a short time ago, which was given m e by Mr. Gould, awakened some suspicion in m y mind as to its correct identification, and the receipt of the true H. angolensis from Mr. Monteiro proves that the Gambian bird is a totally distinct species. The latter may at once be distinguished by its altogether brighter colours, and by the white under wing- and tail-coverts. 8. MOTACILLA VIDUA. Motacilla vidua, Sundev. Ofv. Kongl. Vet. Akad. Forh. 1850, p. 158. Motacilla capensis, Mont. P. Z. S. 1862, p. 334. " N o . 19. River Loge at Ambriz."-J.J. M . 9. IRRISOR CYANOMELAS. Irrisor cyanomelas (Viell.) ; Mont. P. Z. S. 1865, p. 94. " N o . 12. Young female. River Quanza, November 15th, 1868. Stomach contained remains of beetles."-J. J. M . |