HIRUNDO SAVIGNIL 
(CHESTNUT-BELLIED SWALLOW.) 
Hirundo savignit, Steph. in Shaw’s Gen. Zool. x. p. 90 (1817). 
Hirundo cahirica, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 58 (1823). 
Hirundo riocourt, Audouin, Expl. Planches, Hist. Nat. de lEgypte, p. 270 (1825). 
; Cecropis savignyt (Steph.), Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 316. 
Hirundo castanea, Less. Tr. d’Orn. p. 268 (1831). 
Hirundo boissoneautii, Temm. Man. d’Orn. iv. p. 652 (1840). 
Hirundo rustica, vax. orientalis, Schl. Rev. Crit. p. xviii. (1844), 
Cecropis riocourt (Aud.), Riipp. Syst. Ueber. p. 22 (1845). 
Cecropis boissoneautii (Temm.), A. EK. Brehm, J. fiir Orn. 1853, p. 452. 
Hirundo boissoneautii latirostris, A. EK. Brehm, Verz. Samml. C. L. Brehm, p. 3 (1866). 
Hirundo boissoneautii microrhynchos, A. K. Brehm, ut supra (1866). 
Hirundo boissoneautii minor, A. K. Brehm, ut supra (1866). 
Hirundo rustica, var. savignyi, Bree, B. of Eur. p. 170 (1867). 
Figure notabiles. 
Savigny, Ois. de l’Egypte, pl. 4. fig. 4; Susemihl, Vog. Eur. pt. vi. taf. 2; Naumann, Vog. 
Deutschl. taf. 383. fig. 1; Bree, /. ¢. 
Ad. Hirundini rustice similis, sed corpore subtis castaneo nec albido: rectricum maculis rufescentibus nec 
albis. 
Adult Male (Egypt). Resembles Hirundo rustica, except that the entire underparts below the black collar 
and the throat above this collar are deep chestnut-red, and the markings on the tail are rusty white, 
and not pure white as in Hirundo rustica. Total length about 7 inches, culmen 0:4, gape 0°55, wing 4:7, 
tail 4°3, outer rectrices extending 2°25 beyond the central ones, tarsus 0°45. 
Adult Female. Resembles the male, but has the underparts, if any thing, rather paler in shade of colour. 
As previously stated in the notes on Hirundo rustica by Mr. Sharpe and myself (P. Z. 8. 1870, 
p. 248), I can only trace the occurrence of the present species in Palestine and North-east 
Africa. Messrs. Finsch and Hartlaub go so far even as to unite this species with Hirundo rustica 
—a view which I cannot for a moment indorse; but I think it more than probable that examples 
of the common Swallow in full spring plumage, having the underparts tinged with rufous, have 
been mistaken for the present species; and hence it has been recorded as occurring in various 
parts of Europe, and even, by Mr. Gurney, in Great Britain; but I have as yet failed in finding 
any example of Hirundo savignii from a locality north of the Mediterranean. I cannot posi- 
tively state that it has never occurred in Europe proper; but I think the balance of evidence is 
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