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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 Swallows above 

 Cairo. "I found a nest of this species on the 25th. 

 of January, in the grottoes of Ben-Hassan, containing 

 two eggs nearly ready to hatch. Both nest and eggs 

 much resembled those of the Common Swallow." 



In his "Vogel Griechenlands," p. 118, Lindermayer 

 says, "H. rupestris is a resident bird in Greece, and found 

 plentifully in the low neighbourhoods in winter, flying 

 in large flocks over the swamps and the low level 

 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 with 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, 

 G5ta, Velugi, etc. In cold clear winter days it first 

 approaches human dwellings, and extends solitarily 

 among them, and is seen in waving flights over the 

 towns, which resemble much more the Bee-eater than 

 the Swallow. Here they pass the winter, for I have 

 shot them plentifully in the end of December." 



From Degland I take the following: — "jH". alpestris 

 is sufficiently common in Switzerland, in Savoy, and in 

 the Pyrenees. I have received it from Bagnerre-di- 

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