48 Lieut. R. G. Wardlaw-Ramsay’s 
streak down their centres. The tail-feathers are pale-shafted, 
and of the same dark brown colour above, but with four or 
five pale transverse bars on each of the feathers, which are 
also tipped pale and are pale grey beneath. Cere and legs 
yellow. Wing about 12 inches, tarsus 3. 
A pair of these Buzzards had a nest on a ledge of a steep 
cliff near our camp. I failed to obtain the parent birds, but 
believe that the specimen above described belonged tothis nest. 
I am indebted to Mr. J. H. Gurney for identifying the 
specimen. 
(66) Syrnrum nivicota, Hodgs. 
Once or twice flushed, but no specimen obtained. 
(82) Hirunpo rustica, Linn. 
Observed in the Kurrum valley only. 
(84) Hirunpo ritirera, Steph. 
he Wire-tailed Swallow probably occurs in the Hariab 
district, although I cannot recollect having seen it. I found 
both these last species in the Kurrum valley. 
HIRUNDO RUFULA. 
Hirundo rufula, Temm. Man. d’Orn. ii. p. 298. 
The Afghan bird belongs to the western form. It agrees 
with specimens collected on Mount Tabor by Dr. Tristram, 
and in Greece (Howard Saunders). 
All my specimens from Murree are referable to the closely 
allied H. erythropygia, Sykes. Mr. Dresser, in differentiating 
the latter species from H. rufula (B. of E. pt. 37), says, “the 
black on the crown joins that on the back, the red collar not 
extending round the neck.” This statement would be cor- 
rect in the case of the still more eastern form, H. striolata, 
Temm., from Flores, Formosa, China, and Karen-nee ; but 
in a very large series of the Indian bird from different loca- 
lities, in no instance (in which the neck-feathers are in good 
order) is the collar imperfect. 
(91) Corie ruPEsTRIS (Scop.). 
Hirundo rupestris, Scopoli, Ann. I. Hist. Nat. p. 167, no. 
253 (1769). 
