. A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles . very short, very mucli depressed,and broad at the base; upper mandible curved downwards atthe point. Feet short, with three toes in front entirely divided,or united at the base only by a short membrane; claws muchcurved; wings long and pointed. ORIENTAL CHIMNEY SWALLOW. Hirundo rustica, var. Savignyi. Hirundo Savignyi, Leach. Stephens. rustica orientalis, Schlegel. Cahirica, Lichtenstein; Cat., 1823. Riocourii, Audouin; Des. delEgp., vol. 13. Boissonneautii, Temminck; Man. 3, p. 652. Cecropis Savignyi, . BoiE; Isis, 1828,
. A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles . very short, very mucli depressed,and broad at the base; upper mandible curved downwards atthe point. Feet short, with three toes in front entirely divided,or united at the base only by a short membrane; claws muchcurved; wings long and pointed. ORIENTAL CHIMNEY SWALLOW. Hirundo rustica, var. Savignyi. Hirundo Savignyi, Leach. Stephens. rustica orientalis, Schlegel. Cahirica, Lichtenstein; Cat., 1823. Riocourii, Audouin; Des. delEgp., vol. 13. Boissonneautii, Temminck; Man. 3, p. 652. Cecropis Savignyi, . BoiE; Isis, 1828, p. de cheminie orientate, Of the French. Ostliche Rauchschwalbe, Of the Germans. Diagnostic Characters.—Under parts of the body, from thecrop to the base of the tail, of a dark chesnut. Length sixinches; carpus to tip four inches; tail from base to end of lateralfeather three inches; tarsus five lines; beak from gape to end ofupper mandible seven lines. This permanent variety of our English Swallowis found principally in Macedonia, Egypt, and Eastern. ORIENTAL CHIMNEY SWALLOW. 171 Siberia. It is very common in Egypt, but is only foundaccidentally in Europe,—Spain and Greece being thelocalities noted by Temminck, Miihle, Lindermeyer, etc. Professor Blasius, in Naumannia, 1859, p. 254,has a paper upon this bird, which I will transcribenearly entire, as it not only expresses all we knowabout it, but contains some useful remarks upon thedifficult question of species.— At a meeting in Cothea we learned through Olph-Gaillard, that H. Cahirica, Licht., was taken byNager-Donazians, at St. Gothard, and the specimenwas exhibited. Later Laudamman Nager wrote to methat this is there the only Chimney Swallow, and thatduring the spring passage it is sometimes caught byboys with the hand. I also received specimens whichdid not differ in intensity of colour from Africanspecimens. We may reasonably express surprise at anEgyptian species coming to St. Gothard, particularly s
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