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Order VIIT.— CHELIDONES. 
Family IIIR UNBINIT) ( Bonaparte.) 
Genus IIiruxdo. (lAnnams.) 
Generic Characters . — Beak very short, very much depressed, 
and broad at the base; upper mandible curved downwards at 
the point. Feet short, with three toes in front entirely divided, 
or united at the base only by a short membrane; claws much 
curved; wings long and pointed. 
ORIENTAL CHIMNEY SWALLOW. 
Ilirundo rustica, var. Saviynyi. 
Hirundo Savignyi, 
“ rustica orientalis, 
“ Cahirica, 
“ Fiocourii, 
“ Boissonneautii, 
Cecropis Savignyi, 
Horondelle de clieminie orientate, 
Ostliclie Fauchschwalhe, 
Leach. Stephens. 
SCHLEGEL. 
Lichtenstein; Cat., 1823. 
Audouin; Des. del’Egp., vol. 13. 
Temminck; Man. 3, p. 652. 
Boie ; Isis, 1828, p. 316. 
Of the French. 
Of the Germans. 
Diagnostic Characters. — Under parts of the body, from the 
crop to the base of the tail, of a dark chesnut. Length six 
inches ; carpus to tip four inches ; tail from base to end of lateral 
feather three inches ; tarsus five lines ; beak from gape to end of 
upper mandible seven lines. 
This ^^perinanent variety” of our English Swallow 
is found principally in Macedonia^ Egypt, and Eastern 
