A couple of rufous, brown-headed, and dirty speckle-breasted swallows appeared to-day for the first time this season, and lighted on the ground.

This is the kind that builds here in houses, and as far south as Shupanga, on the Zambesi, and at Kuraman.
Sun-birds visit a mass of spiders' web to-day; they pick out the young spiders.

Nectar is but part of their food.

The insects in or at the nectar could not be separated, and hence have been made an essential part of their diet.

On closer inspection, however, I see that whilst seeming to pick out young spiders--and they probably do so--they end in detaching the outer coating of spiders' web from the inner stiff paper web, in order to make a nest between the two.