35. Black Saw-wing Saw-wings are a type of swallow. If you are expecting to see a serrated edge of ‘teeth’ on the wings of these birds, you will be disappointed. It has the standard neat swallow shape to it, with a deep V-shaped fork in the tail. Here, we get two types: the Black and the White-headed, but only the Black has been recorded in Africama. Black is, indeed, what it is all over, though its underwing covert feathers – in what you might think of as its armpits – are a silvery-grey just visible from below. Unlike the Barn Swallow, it is a resident in Africa: especially in Congo and neighbouring countries, as well as Tanzania, Mozambique and South Africa. Birds of AFRICAMA House 74 Birds of AFRICAMA House 75