and resident. With bad weather this bird comes down to the plains ; otherwise it remains 

 high up the mountain-sides during the wliole year. I took a nest on May 13th with four 

 fresh eggs." 



Count Salvadori and Dr. Giglioli both state that the species is resident in the parts 

 of Italy where it breeds, but that a considerable migration also takes place; and the 

 latter gentleman writes, a propos of a suggestion of Canon Tristram, that he could not 

 find satisfactory evidence of a single locality where the species is found only in 

 summer: — "The bird in question certainly leaves Genoa in the winter; it arrives early 

 in March, nests in considerable numbers at Schiena d'Asino, where the torrent Bisagno 

 has its source, and leaves in November."' He further states that the Crag-Martin is 

 certainly stationary in many localities in Northern and Central Italy, and he gives 

 instances of many winter observations. 



Dr. Doderlein says that " the Crag-Swallow is not at all rare in Sicily, especially 

 about Messina, Catania, and Syracuse. It arrives before C. riparla, and leaves later ; 

 but some birds remain all through the winter in the centre of the island, while others 

 seem to arrive in small flocks in December, January, and February, especially during the 

 bright days previous to bad weather, whence the name Rlnnina di mnlu tempu.''' 



Mr. Hudleston has stated that near Missolonghi, in Greece, it not only bi'eeds, but 

 spends the winter ; and Dr. Kriiper states that he was assured by several naturalists 

 that the species is a resident in Greece, but he himself never saw it in winter. He 

 noticed a single pair breeding in the Klissura, and has often found the nest in tlie 

 Parnassus. In the island of Naxos he also procured two nests, but says that it is rare 

 in tlie island. Lord Lilford met Avith the species in Epirus : there are so far no 

 instances of its occurrence in Turkey ; but it is included among the birds of Croatia by 

 Professor Brusina, who says that it has not been observed in the interior, but was obtained 

 in June 1891 on the rocks near Tort Mamula in Cattaro, and the Agraui ]\luseuni also 

 possesses specimens from Ptijeka in Montenegro. 



Lord Lilford, in his list of the Birds of Cyprus, gives the following note by 

 Dr. Guillemard : — " Only observed on one occasion by me, in small uuniljcrs in the Karpas 

 district ; found breeding near Kantara in jNLarch, and under the eaves of the (Joveruor's 

 House on Troodos in April 1SS8." 



According to Canon Tristram, it "resides in all the glens of Palestine throughout 

 the year, not often in large numbers, though in the Jordan valley it is numerous enough 

 to be decidedly gregarious, as it is also in tlie gorge of tlie Litany Bivt'r. it l)re(.'ils 

 early in March." 



The occurrence of the species in Egypt is extremely doubtful. Brchm says ihat 

 he found it rare in that country; but Yon Jleuglin states that he iicvcr olisci'Ncd il in 

 ^orth-eastern Africa at all, and certainly all the specimens whieli we have seen tVom 

 Kgypt have been C ohmleta. On the other hand, lioweNcr, C. r/ipi.^/ris does occur in 

 Al)yssiuia, for ^Ir. Blaui'ord l)ronn'ht back aulhenlic specimens. Curiously enoui;li, loo. 

 he says that it was a " very common "" bird in the rocky passes, and i'onnd almost IVom 



