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Mr. J. A. Bucknill on the 
May, but Glaszner does not appear to have sent any 
specimens to Madarasz. However, it is by no means a rare 
spring and autumn migrant, and Mr. Baxendale, Horsbrugh, 
and I found it not at all uncommon from April the 3rd to 
the end of that month near Nicosia and Papho, and obtained 
several specimens. In my garden at the former town 
during this period one or two were nearly always to be seen 
in company with M. grisola. I have no evidence, as yet, of 
its remaining to nest in the island, though it is not at all 
improbable that a few pairs do so. 
388. Hirundo rustica Linn. 
The Swallow is a very abundant summer visitor, arriving 
towards the end of February and leaving about the middle 
of October. A few always seem to appear about the 21st 
of the former month, and Guillemard noticed one as early 
as the 13th : by the end of the first week in March the main 
body has arrived, and in the middle of that month they 
commence to build—often using their old nests. In the 
plains they breed, as is the case with other species in the 
island, somewhat earlier than in the mountains. 
In Nicosia 1 found fresh full clutches on April the 4th; 
on May the 8th the young were well fledged, and they flew 
on the 23rd; but in the hills Horsbrugh took fresh eggs as 
late as May the 12th, and on July the 8th the young birds 
on the top of Troddos were still unable to fly. 
At the end of September, when it begins to get damp and 
cold on the hills, those which have frequented the mountains 
leave them and descend to the plains, from which, though a 
few linger till towards the end of October, they all finally 
disappear about a fortnight later. 
391. Subsp, Hirundo savignii Steph. 
The Egyptian Chimney-Swallow, which has been accorded 
by some a subspecific status under the above name, may be, 
for practical purposes, classed with H. rustica, and I do not 
think I can do better than quote Guillemard's remarks in 
connection with the relations which exist in Cyprus between 
the two forms. He writes, “ The difference in the colouring 
