5. HiKirNDO. 133 



t". Jut. sk. Walwisch Bay, Damara Sharpe Collection. 



Land, Dec. 1^3, 1863 



{€'. J. Andersson). 

 v". (S ad. sk. ZouUa, Abyssinia, June W. T. Blanford, Esq. [0.1 



12, 1868. 

 ^". 2 ad. sk. Anseba Valley, Aug. 6, W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



v". Q juv. sk. MashaUut Pass, Bogos, W. T. Blanford, Esq. rCl. 



July 13, 1868. 

 V'". 2ad.sk. Red Sea, Oct. 13, 1873. Howard Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 



Subsp, a. Hirundo savignii. 



Hirundo savignii, Steph. Gen. Zool. x. p. 90 (1817) ; Dubois, Ois. 



Eur. pi. 34 (c. 1862) ; Dresser, B. Eur. iii. p. 473, pi. 160. fig-. 2 



(1875) ; B. O. U. List Br. B. p. 42 (188.3). 

 Hirundo cahirica, Licht. Verz. Doithl. p. 58 (1823) ; Gray, Gen. B. 



1. p. 57 (1845) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. .328 (1850) ; Cass.Cat.Hirund. Mus. 



Phil. Acad. p. 2 (1852) ; Bp. Rivist. Contemp., Torino, 1857, p. 4 ; 



Blasius in Naxim. Vog. Deutschl., NacMraq, p. 307, Taf. 383. fig. 1 



(1860) ; Ayitin. Cat. descr. Ucc. p. 26 (1864) ; Allen, Ibis, 1864, 



p. 237 ; Blyth, Ibis, 1866, pp. 237, 336 ; Taylor, Ibis, 1867, p. 56 ; 



Degl. et Gerbe, Orn. Eur. 1. p. 589 (1867) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 68, no. 789 (1869); JSeiiyl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 152 (18C.9); 



Fritsch, Vog. Eur. Taf. 23. fig. 1 (1870) ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. 



iv. App. p. Ivi (1873). 

 Hirundo riocouri, Atulouin, Descr. de VEgypte, p. 270, pi. 4. fig. 4 



(1825) ; Cab. Mus. Heiti. Th. i. p. 46 (1850) ; Cass. Cat. Hirund. 



Mus. Philad. Acad. p. 2 (1853) ; Sharpe ^- Dresser, P. Z. S. 1870, 



p. 247 ; Sharpe, t. c. p. 305 ; Wyatt, Ibis, 1870, p. 12 ; Shelley, B. 



Egypt, p. 519 (1875) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1875, p. 519. 

 Cecropis savignii, Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 316. 

 Hirundo castanea, Less. Traife dOrn. p. 268 (1831). 

 Hirundo boissoneauti ; Temm., Schl. ^ Susem. Vog. Eur. vi. Taf. 2. 



fig. 2 (1839); Temm. Man. d' Om. iv. p. 652 (1840); Linderm. 



Vog. Griechenl. p. 119 (1860). 

 Hirundo rustica, var, orientalis, ScU. Rev. Crit. p. xviii (1844) ; 



Adams, Ibis, 1864, p. 14. 

 Cecropis riocouri, Rilpp. Syst. Uebers. p. 22 (1845) ; Seugl. Syst. 



Uebers. p. 16 (1856). 

 Cecropis boissoneauti, E. Brehm, J. f. O. 1853, p. 452. 

 Cecropis cahirica, C. L. Brehm, Nautn. 1855, p. 271. 

 Hirundo rustica orientalis, Temm. 8f Schl. Faun. Jap., Aves, p. 32 



(1850) ; Leith Adams, Ibis, 1864, p. 14. 

 Hirundo rufa (wee Gm.), Sivinh. Ibis, 1864, p. 414. 

 Hirundo boissoneauti latirostris, A. E. Brehm, Verz, Samml. C. L. 



Brehm, p. 3 (1866). 

 Hirundo boissoneauti microrhynchos, A. E. Brehm, t. c. p. 3 (1866). 

 Hirundo boissoneauti minor, A. E. Brehm, t. c. p. 3 (1860). 

 Hirundo rustica, var. cahirica, Doderl. Aiif. Sicil. 1809, p. 144. 

 Hirundo rustica, var. savignii, Bree, B. Eur. iv. p. 85 (1875). 

 Ohelidon savignii, SteJ7i. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. vi. p. 31 (1882). 



Achdt male (Egypt, March 13, 18G8). General colour above deep 

 purplish blue, the hind neck and mantle slightly varied with the 

 rufous-white bases to the feathers ; wing-coverts like the back ; quills 



