MUSCIOAPA. — HIRUNDO. Ill 



has been procured near Cairo. It is represented in eastern 

 Siberia by M. p. albicilla and in the Himalaya by M. p. 

 hyperythra. 



Family HIRUNDINIDiE. 



Genus HIRUNDO Linnceus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 191. 

 Type : H. rustica Linn. 



Hirundo = a Swallow, in classical Latin ; cognate with the Greek xeXlSuv. 



Hirundo rustica. Swallow. 



HirundO rustica Linnceus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 191: 



Sweden. 



Hirundo rustica Linn. ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 42 ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. x. 1885, p. 128 ; Saunders, 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 163. 



Buatica = of the country. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Summer Visitor, 

 generally distributed but nesting rarely in the wilder por- 

 tions o£ the Highlands of Scotland, in the Outer Hebrides, 

 Orkney and Shetland Islands, and in the far west of Ireland. 

 Also a Bird of Passage, being regular and common, but most 

 in evidence on the eastern seaboard, less so in the Orkney 

 and Shetland Islands and on the west coast generally. 



General Distribution. — The Swallow breeds throughout 

 Europe, north-west Africa, and western Asia. It winters 

 throughout tropical and southern Africa, India and its islands. 

 Allied forms have been described from Egypt, many parts 

 of Asia, and North America. 



Hirundo rufula. Red-eumped Swallow. 



Hirundo rufula Temminck, Man. d^Orn. 2nd ed. iii. 1835, 

 p. 298 : Egypt. 



Hinindo rufula Temm.; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 43; 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. x. 1885, p. 156; Clarke, Ann. 

 Scottish Nat. JEist. 1906, p. 205. 



