CRAG SWAIJ.OW. 
inr) 
Leith Adams informs me that it is generally distributed 
over the Nilghiris Mountains, in Madras, and on certain 
parts of the Western Himalayas. In the Epirus we 
are informed by Lord Lilford, (Ibis, vol. ii,, p. 234,) 
it is common and resident, “haunting the high and 
precipitous mountains of the interior in summer, and 
coming down to the coast during the winter months.” 
In the same Journal, (vol. i., p. 46,) Mr. Taylor informs 
us that it is the most abundant of the SavrIIows above 
Cairo. “I found a nest of this species on the 25th. 
of January, in the grottoes of Ben-Hassan, containing 
tAA^o eggs nearly ready to hatch. Both nest and eggs 
much resembled those of the Common SwalloAv.” 
In his “Vogel Griechenlands,” p. 118, Lindermayer 
says, “LT. rupestris is a resident bird in Greece, and found 
plentifully in the low neighbourhoods in Avinter, flying 
in large flocks over the sAvamps and the Ioav leA'el 
grounds near the sea. In summer it is only seen in 
the high mountains. I have in the early days of March, 
1845, killed many specimens in the mountains of 
Athens. Kriiper found a nest Avith eggs in Akarnania 
and on Parnassus.” 
Count Miihle, in his “Beitrage Zur Ornithologie 
Griechenlands,” page 81, says, — “In summer H. alpestris 
is only seen on high mountains, such as Taygetus, 
(Eta, Velugi, etc. In cold clear Avinter days it first 
approaches human dAvellings, and extends solitarily 
among them, and is seen in Avaving flights over the 
tOAvns, which resemble much more the Bee-eater than 
the Swallow. Here they pass the Avinter, for I haA'e 
shot them plentifully in the end of December.” 
From Degland I take the following: — “H. alpestris 
is sufficiently common in SAvitzerland, in SaA^oy, and in 
the Pyrenees. I have received it from Bagnerre-di- 
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