42 HIRUNDINIDy«. 



Muscicapa parva. Red-breasted Flycatcher. 



Muscicapa parva, Bechstein, Naturg. Deutschl. iv. 



p. 505 (1795). 



Muscicapa parva, Naum. ii. p. 241 ; Gray, p. 80 ; Newton, i. 



p. 224; Hurting, p. 99; Dresser, iii. p. 465. 

 Erythrosterna parva, Gould, ii. pi. 20. 



Farva = small. 



A very rare straggler, which has occurred once in Cornwall 

 and twice in the Scilly Isles. Breeds in some parts of Central 

 and South-eastern Europe, migrating in winter into North 

 Africa, and ranging through Turkestan and Persia as far 

 eastwards as India. 



Section OSCINES LATIROSTRES. 



Family HIRUNDINID^. 

 Genus HIRUNDO, Linnaus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 343 (1766). 



Hirundo =: a Swallow, in classical Latin ; cognate with x^^^^*^^f which is 

 connected with ^fip = the hand, " seizing ilies." 



[Hirundo savignii. Ghestnut-bszlijid Swallow. 



Hirundo Savignii, Stephens in Shawns Gen. Zool. x. 

 p. 90 (1817). 



Hirundo cahirica, Naum. xiii. p. 207. 

 Hirundo savignii. Dresser, iii. p. 473. 



Savignii, in honour of Marie Jules-Cesar Lelorgne de SaTigny, b. Apr. 5, 

 1777, d. Oct. 5, 1851, who first figured the species, Oiseaux de I'Egypte, pi. 4. 



Resident in North-eastern Africa and Palestine, rarely, if 

 ever, straying north of the Mediterranean. Erroneously 

 reported to have occurred near Tees-mouth by Mr. J. H. 

 Gurney, Jun. (Ibis, 1866, p. 423) .J 



Hirundo rustica. Swallow. 



Hirundo rustica, Linnceus, S.N. i. p. 343 (1766) . 

 Hirundo rustica, Naum. vi. p. 49; Macff. iii. p. 558 ; Hewitson, 

 p. 257; Gray, p. 33; Yarr. ed. 2, ii. p. 231; id. ed. 3, 



