626 NOTES FROM THE SOUTH. 
Hirzunpo rustica. Swallow. 
First seen on March 29th at Ragusa. A few days later 
some pairs took up their residence at Lacroma. In Southern 
Dalmatia I found remarkably few Swallows, but in the 
Herzegovina and Northern Dalmatia they were much more 
abundant. 
QHELIDON uRBICA. Martin. 
I saw the first in the Herzegovina during the beginning of 
April. In Dalmatia I found them almost quite solitary in 
the south, somewhat commoner in the north, but even there 
they were not numerous. 
CoryLe RrpaRrA. Sand-Martin. 
During the first days of April flocks of Sand-Martins visited 
a cave on the shore of the island of Lacroma. On April 20th 
and 21st I saw a few on the rivers Cettina and Kerka in 
Northern Dalmatia. I was also informed by a trustworthy 
observer that some of these birds had passed the winter in a 
cave near Ragusa. 
CypseLus apus. Swift. 
On March 29th I saw a few on the walls of the old fortifi- 
cations at Ragusa ; on the following days large flocks ; but 
later only some stray pairs that flew about the cliffs of Lacroma 
in the morning and evening. In the Herzegovina and Dal- 
matia I everywhere met with Swifts, but nowhere in large 
numbers. 
CyYPsELUS MELBA. Alpine Swift. 
First observed on the walls of Ragusa on March 29th. On 
the following days they came in great numbers and there re- 
mained. In the middle of April a colony of at least twenty 
pairs took up their quarters in a cave on the shore of Lacroma. 
