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Lieut. H. E. Barnes found the species l3i"eeding at Chaman in Southern Af2:hanistan, 

 but not in such numbers as at Kandahar. The hite Sir Oliver St. John oljserves : — " First 

 seen in Kandahar in 1879 on the 7th Pebruary. Disappeared entirely l)efore the end of 

 September, very few indeed remaining after the middle of August." Colonel Swiuhoe 

 notes that he saw the first Swallow in 1881 on the 29th January. In Quetta they are 

 later in appearing. 



Major Yate procured specimens in the Badgis district, Herat, on the 12th of April, 

 and Dr. Aitchison at Gulran. Major AVardlaw Eamsay noticed the species in the 

 Kurrum Valley. 



By Dr. Henderson the Common Swallow was found in great abundance in Cashmere, 

 in June, where it was breeding. Colonel Biddulph says that in Gilgit it was seen at 

 intervals all through the summer. The earliest date at which any Swallows were noticed 

 was the 14th of jMarch, and all the specimens obtained by him and Dr. Scully appeared 

 to be true //. rustica. This ajjplies to most of their specimens, but we consider one or 

 two to be intermediate. Mr. Brooks states that it was frequently seen by him between 

 Masuri and Gangaotri, as it was at all the hill stations. He inclines to the belief that 

 the Masuri bird is not true II. rustica ; but we are not able to decide this question, as 

 there are no Masuri specimens in the Hume collection, but an Almorah bird in the 

 latter is typical S. rustica. In his paper on the Inrds of Chamba, Colonel C. H. T. 

 Marshall writes : — " They arrive in the spring in numbers, frequently as early as 

 February 1st, and stay here till the autumn. A nest may be found in every third or 

 fourth house during April and May. A Swallow's nest in the house is looked upon as 

 a good omen Mj the householder." Mr. Hume found it " more or less al)undant 

 in suitable localities throughout Siudh from Kussmore to Kurrachee." A specimen 

 from Sehwan, in the Hume collection, is considered by us to be intermediate between 

 H. rustica and S. yutturalis. Throughout Cutch, Kathiawar, and Gujerat, the Swallow 

 is said by Colonel Butler to be a cold-weather visitant. The only specimen collected 

 by Major Hayes Lloyd at Kajkote, in Kathiawar, appears to us to be true H. gutturalis. 

 Colonel Butler states that in the neighbourhood of Mount Aboo and in Xortheru 

 Gujerat the present species is common in the plains diu'ing the cold weather, anivinii: 

 about the 1st of August, and leaving towards the end of February. Mr. Hume states that 

 Dr. King never obtained it on Mount Aboo and it does not apparently ascend tlie 

 hill. He also says that many of the specimens from the above-mentioned region 

 may be referred to H. (juttiiraUs, l)ut that Colonel Butler's specimens from Deesa were 

 undoulitedly true H. rustica; this is confirmed by a specimen from Deesa in ihe 1 1 nine 

 collection. 



From Xepal we have seen nothing l)ut tlie true IT. rustica. Dr. Si-ully writes: — 

 " Tlic Common Swallow is found in alumdance in the valley nl' .\('|>;>l (hiring scvcmi 

 months in the year. It arrives about the middle of February, and niiurales to ti:e plains 

 about the middle of September. The earliest date on which I noticed it in the valley 

 was on the Sth of February, ami the l:ilcsl on the \'M\\ of Sc|itenil)er. During- the 

 winter it was very common in the 'I'erai and philiis of Nei^al. This Swallow lu-ccds 



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