A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles (1862) (14564027199)

Identifier: historyofbirdsof03bree (find matches)
Title: A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Bree, Charles Robert, 1811-1886
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: London, Groombridge and Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library



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CKAG SWALLOW. Hirundo rupestris. Hirundo rupestris, Scopoli; 1768. montana et rupestris, Gmelin; 1788. Cotyle rupestris, Boie. Bonaparte. Ptyonoprogne rupestris, Bonaparte. Hirondelle de rocher, Of the French. Felsenschwalbe, Of the Germans. Sondine montana, Savi. Specific Characters.—Upper parts ash. grey, more or less darkaccording 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 innerweb. Length of tip of beak to end of long wings when closedsix inches and a half; from carpus to tip five inches; tarsus fivelines; beak seven lines; tail two inches and a half. The Crag Swallow inhabits Sicily, Sardinia, theAlps and Pyrenees, the north of Africa, and the easternparts of Asia. It is also found in the Appenines, andin Tuscany, in Greece, and the Ionian Islands. Wehave also records of its appearance in Egypt and therocks bordering the ChifFa, in Algeria. In India, Dr.
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CRAG SWALLOW. 185 Leith Adams informs me that it is generally distributedover the Nilghiris Mountains, in Madras, and on certainparts of the Western Himalayas. In the Epirus weare informed by Lord Lilford, (Ibis, vol. ii., p. 234,)it is common and resident, haunting the high andprecipitous mountains of the interior in summer, andcoming down to the coast during the winter months.In the same Journal, (vol. i., p. 46,) Mr. Taylor informsus that it is the most abundant of the Swallows aboveCairo. I found a nest of this species on the 25th.of January, in the grottoes of Ben-Hassan, containingtwo eggs nearly ready to hatch. Both nest and eggsmuch resembled those of the Common Swallow. In his Vogel Griechenlands, p. 118, Lindermayersays, H. rupestris is a resident bird in Greece, and foundplentifully in the low neighbourhoods in winter, flyingin large flocks over the swamps and the low levelgrounds near the sea. In summer it is only seen inthe high mountains. I have in the early days of Marc