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Young Male (Smyrna, 31st July). Resembles the adult, but is duller in colour; the underparts are scarcely 
striated, and are washed with a deeper shade of rufous-buff; secondaries and some of the wing-coverts 
tipped with rufous-buff; the outer rectrix on each side with a large whitish patch nearly on the centre 
of the inner web; and the tail is much less forked than in the adult. 
Tus beautiful Swallow inhabits Southern and South-eastern Europe, Asia Minor, and is found, 
though rarely, in North-east Africa. To the eastward it is met with at least as far as Baluchistan 
and Turkestan, being replaced in India and Eastern Asia by a closely allied species (H. erythro- 
pygia, Sykes), which is probably the true 7. daurica of Linneeus. 
It has once occurred in Heligoland, but is not otherwise found in Northern or Central 
Europe, nor do I find it recorded as having been met with in Spain or Portugal; but Degland 
and Gerbe state that it occurs tolerably often in Languedoc, and ascends the basin of the Rhone, 
having been observed even in the Departments of the Drédme and the Céte dOr; they add that 
M. Lunel found a pair nesting in 1845 or 1846 near Avignon, and obtained the eggs, which were 
white, spotted with reddish brown, exactly like those of the common Swallow—showing clearly 
that they were not those of the present species, which lays pure white eggs. In Italy, Salvadori 
states that some individuals are obtained nearly every year in Liguria. Savi also notices the 
capture of a specimen in Tuscany. In Sicily it appears to be not uncommon near Messina; but 
from the Island of Sardinia it has not yet been recorded. I have specimens from Genoa (where 
it is stated to occur regularly), sent to me by the Marquis Doria; and Mr. C. A. Wright, who 
has obtained it at Malta, writes (Ibis, 1864, p. 57) as follows:—“ I was long of opinion it would 
turn up in Malta; but it was not until the 5th April, 1862, that I had the pleasure of seeing it. 
Out shooting with Dr. Leith Adams, at the Salini, we distinctly recognized three individuals, of 
which Dr. Adams succeeded in shooting one. We noticed at the same time ZH. rustica and 
1. riparia, of which I shot two or three. A strong easterly wind was blowing; indeed, easterly 
winds had prevailed for some days, to which probably was owing the presence of H. daurica so far 
to the westward of its usual habitat. A day or two subsequently Dr. Adams obtained another 
specimen from the same place, and saw several others. There are two specimens in the Malta 
University, evidently taken many years ago; but no locality or time is given.” In Greece it is 
common, and breeds, according to Lindermayer, in colonies in Acarnania; and Dr. Kriiper 
states (J. f. O. 1860, p. 274), 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 with it on the Parnassus, near 
the villages of Arachova, Agorian, Gravia, Mariolates, Dadi, and most common 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 urbica. Last year I saw the first H. rustica on 
the 20th March, and the first wrbica 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 me that, according to his experience, it arrives a full month later than the 
Martin and Chimney-Swallow. I find no record of its occurrence in Turkey; nor does it appear 
