2 Mr. J. A. Bucknill on the 



May, but Glaszner does not appear to have sent any 

 specimens to Madarasz. However, it is by no means a rare 

 spring and autumn migrant, and Mr. Baxendale, Horsbrugh, 

 and I found it not at all uncommon from April the 3rd to 

 the end of that month near Nicosia and Papho, and obtained 

 several specimens. In my garden at the former town 

 during this period one or two were nearly always to be seen 

 in company with M. grisola. I have no evidence, as yet, of 

 its remaining to nest in the island, though it is not at all 

 improbable that a few pairs do so. 



388. Hirtjndo rustica Linn. 



The Swallow is a very abundant summer visitor, arriving 

 towards the end of February and leaving about the middle 

 of October. A few always seem to appear about the 21st 

 of the former month, and Guillemard noticed one as early 

 as the 13th : by the end of the first week in March the main 

 body has arrived, and in the middle of that month they 

 commence to build — often using their old nests. In the 

 plains they breed, as is the case with other species in the 

 island, somewhat earlier than in the mountains. 



In Nicosia I found fresh full clutches on April the 4th ; 

 on May the 8th the young were well fledged, and they flew 

 on the 23rd ; but in the hills Horsbrugh took fresh eggs as 

 late as May the 12th, and on July the 8th the young birds 

 on the top of Troodos were still unable to fly. 



At the end of September, when it begins to get damp and 

 cold on the hills, those which have frequented the mountains 

 leave them and descend to the plains, from which, though a 

 few linger till towards the end of October, they all finally 

 disappear about a fortnight later. 



391. Subsp. Hirundo savignii Steph. 



The Egyptian Chimney- Swallow, which has been accorded 

 by some a subspecific status under the above name, may be, 

 for practical purposes, classed with H. rustica, and I do not 

 think I can. do better than quote Guillemard's remarks in 

 connection with the relations which exist in Cyprus between 

 the two forms. He writes, " The difference in the colouring 



