Swallow 
Hivundo vustica 
Variation is clinal with one widespread 
subspecies (vustica) in western Eurasia 
to the Yenisei south to western North 
Africa and the Himalayas, which migrates 
to Africa; another (tvansitiva) in the 
Near East, which occurs in winter in 
Egypt; a third (savignii) is resident in 
Egypt; others in the Far East. 
Habitat: Open and cultivated country and 
human settlements. 
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