flying over the Arno in Elorence, between S. Trinita bridge and Ponte Vecchio, was a 

 specimen of this species, its reddish rump glowing conspicuously in the sunlight. I 

 saw it again the next day, together with CheHdoii urbica ; it afterwards disappeared. 

 Our collectien possesses two specimens, a male shot near Genoa in May 1859, and a 

 female shot at Bari in August 1874i. I believe that a few couples breed with us." In 

 liis paper on the birds of Malta and Gozo, Mr. C. A. Wright observes : — " I was long of 

 opinion it would turn up in Malta ; but it was not until 5th April, 1862, that I had the 

 pleasure of seeing it. Out shooting with Dr. Leith Adams, at the Salini, we distinctly 

 recognized three individvials, of which Dr. Adams succeeded in shooting one. We 

 noticed at the same time //. rustica and H. rlparia, of which I shot two or three. A 

 strong easterly wind was blowing ; indeed, easterly winds had prevailed for some days, 

 to which was owing the presence of //. rufula so far to the westward of its usual habitat. 

 A day or two subsequently, Dr. Adams obtained another specimen from the same place, 

 uTid saw several others. There are two specimens in the Malta University, evidently 

 taken many years ago, but no locality or time is given. Another example of this rare 

 visitor was taken in April 1870." 



Professor Doderlein states that it is not uncommon near Messina, and Lord Lilford 

 believes that he saw the species near Catania on the 24'th of March. 



In Algeria, Loche states that it is of very rai-e occurrence, and Mr. Dresser is 

 inclined to doubt the capture of the species in that country ; but there is no question that 

 Loche had grounds for his assertion, as it is uadoubtedly found in Marocco. A specimen 

 was presented to the British Museum in 1886 by Mr. Kirby Green, C.M.G., who has 

 given us the accompanying note : — " A male bird was killed at M'tourga on the spurs 

 of the Atlas, close to the place where Mr. Herbert White shot the Geronticus. I 

 t)l3served this Swallow in the villages higher up, also along the coast of Mogador to half- 

 way between Rabat and Tangier. It was nowhere very numerous." 



With regard to the species in Greece, we borrow from Mr. Dresser's ' Birds of 

 Europe ' the translation of Dr. Kriiper's account : — " It is found in Acarnania, from the 

 extreme point of the Vorassova Mountains opposite Patras, along the mountain-range to 

 the Phidaris (Euenos) river, from there along the Zygos Mountains to the Aspropotamos 

 (Acheloos) ; to the north near the harbour of Astaco, in the Klissura, near Vrachori, 

 and four hours' walk from there on the road between Prostova and Carpenisi. We 

 further met w^ith it on the Parnassus, near the villages of Arachova, Agorian, Gravia, 

 Mariolates, Dadi, and most commonly near Velitza. Doubtless it ranges further north in 

 Turkey, perhaps as far as Dalmatia. It certainly inhabits also the southern portion of 

 Greece and the Peloponnesus. It doubtless arrives about the same time in Acarnania 

 as Hirundo rustica and S. urbica. Last year I saw the first H. rustica on the 20th March, 

 and the first //. urbica and //. rufula on the 26th of that month. They probably leave 

 in October. I frequently saw them late in September on the Parnassus." Mr. Seebohm, 

 however, informs us that, according to his experience, it arrives a full month later than 

 tiie Martin and Chimnev-Swallow. 



