the Bii'ds of Transylvania. 301 



*58. Cypselus APus (L.). TorowyF(ec5A;e (Tower- Swallow). 



Common. According to Bieltz they used to breed in old 

 walls and towers, but do so no longer, but frequent the oak- 

 woods, where they nest in the holes of trees. We found 

 them in the Mocsar wood, and on the castle-hill at Gorgeny. 



59. Cypselus melba (L.). Havasi Fecske (Mountain- 

 Swallow). 



Rare, but occurring among the higher mountains, where 

 they nest among the rocks, Herr Buda Adam has seen it 

 near Hatzeg; and it has been seen in the Kolos wood near 

 Klausenburg. 



^60. Chelidon urbica(L.). FeAerFec^^e (White Swallow). 



Common everywhere. Herr Otto, however, writing in 

 1867, says that the Hirundinidse are diminishing in numbers 

 yearly so fast in Klausenburg that it is to be feared they 

 will altogether disappear, and that " at present scarcely 

 twenty to thirty pairs breed in the town." 



*61. HiEUNDo KUSTicA, L. Fw^^i FecsAc (Smoky Swallow). 

 Common everywhere. 



■^62. HiRUNDo RiPARiA, L. M«r/2 Fec5^e (Bank-Swallow) . 

 Common everywhere in the neighbourhood of water. 



■^63. MusciCAPA coLLARis, Bcchst. Legy Kapo. 



Said to be common, especially in lowland woods. We saw 

 them, however, but rarely, in the beech-woods on the Hatzeg 

 mountains, and in the Mocsar oak-forest at Gorgeny, 



64. MUSCICAPA ATRICAPILLA, L. 



Rarer than the preceding, but occurs among lowland woods. 



*65. MusciCAPA PARVA, Bcchst. 



Herr Klir, when with us, observed one near Zah ; and it 

 is not uncommon during autumn in some parts of the country, 

 especially on the south-west frontier. Danford saw them at 

 that season on the banks of the Klopotiva, near Rea, among 

 thick bushes ; and some specimens in Herr Buda Adam^s col- 

 lection are from the same locality. 



