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CHELIDONES. 



Family HIRUNDINIDJE. (Bonaparte.) 



Genus Hirtjndo. ( Linnceus.J 



CKAG SWALLOW. 



Hirundo rupestris. 



Sir undo rupestris, Scopoli; 1768. 



" montana et rupestris, Gmelin; 1788. 



Cotyle rupestris, Boie. Bonapaete. 



Ptyonoprogne rupestris, Bonapaete. 



Hirondelle de rocker, Of the Feench. 



FehenscTiwalbe, Of the Geemans. 



Hondine montana, 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 when closed 

 six inches and a half; from carpus to tip five inches; tarsus five 

 lines; beak seven lines; tail two 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. 



