RUFOUS SWALLOW. LSo 



riparia,) may be found breeding in Mount Aracynthus. 

 Hirundo rupestris is the only Swallow which winters 

 in Greece. 



H. Daurica has the top of the head and back metallic 

 black; wings and tail dull black; cheeks and auditory 

 region yellowish grey; nape and lateral parts of the 

 occiput russet; rump tawny red, passing into yellowish 

 white on the posterior half; throat, chest, abdomen, 

 under tail and wing coverts, whitish, washed with russet, 

 especially on the chest and flanks, and finely striated 

 with brown, more distinct on the crop and throat; the 

 terminal moiety of the under tail coverts, well-defined 

 metallic black; beak and feet blackish, the latter slender. 

 The external tail feathers have almost always on their 

 inner barb a small, whitish, oval spot, not well defined, 

 and placed slightly in advance of the base of the feather, 

 which is covered by the inferior coverts. M. De Selys 

 informs us that M. Jaubert has a specimen which has 

 a well-marked white spot on one of the great tail 

 feathers, while the other is quite black. 



As I have before mentioned, I am indebted to M. 

 Ed. De Selys-Longchamps for the Grecian specimen 

 which I have figured. I return him my very best 

 thanks for this obligation. The egg is from Mr. 

 Tristram, and is marked "JE. M. 31—59. W. H. S." 



