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CHELIDONES. 
Family HIM UNDINIDH^. f Bonaparte. ) 
Genus Hirundo. ( Linnceus.J 
CEAG SWALLOW. 
Hirundo rupestris. 
Hirundo rupestris, 
“ montana et rupestris, 
Cotyle rupestris, 
Ptyonoprogne rupestris, 
Hirondelle de rocher, 
Felsenschwalbe, 
Mondine montana, 
ScoPOLi; 1768. 
Gmelin; 1788. 
Boie. Bonapaete. 
Bonapaete. 
Of the Feench. 
Of the Geemans. 
Savi. 
Specific Characters. — Upper parts ash. grey, more or less dark 
according to age; primaries dark smoky brown; tail dark brown, 
the two upper and two most external tail feathers unicolorous; 
all the others having a large round white spot on the inner 
web. Length of tip of beak to end of long wings w'hen closed 
six inches and a half; from carpus to tip five inches; tarsus five 
lines; beak seven lines; tail tw'O inches and a half. 
The Crag Swallow inhabits Sicily, Sardinia, the 
Alps and Pyrenees, the north of Africa, and the eastern 
parts of Asia. It is also found in the Appenines, and 
in Tuscany, in Greece, and the Ionian Islands. We 
have also records of its appearance in Egypt and the 
rocks bordering the Chiffa, in Algeria. In India, Dr. 
