Class II. MARTIN, 



401 



Le Martinet. Belon an). 380. 



Hirundo fylveftris. Gefner aij» 

 564. Frifchy I. 17. 



uilclr. au. II. 311. 



Martin, Martlet, or Marti- 

 net. JVil. orn. 213. 



Rail Jyn. av. 7 1 . 



Rondone minore, c Graflblo. 

 Tsinan. 48. 



Hudaurnik. Scopoliy No. 250. 



La petite Hirondelle, ou le 



Martinet a cul blanc. Brif- 



fan a-u. II. 490. 

 Hirundo urbica. Lin.fyji, 344. 

 Hus-Swala. Faun. Suec. /p. 



271. 

 Speyerl. Kram. 380. 

 DanisByev. Tagfkioeg-Svale, 



Langelandisy Rive. Br. 290. 

 Br. Zool. 96. pJate Q^ f. 2. 



Ph. Tr. lyy^. p. 196. 



169. Mar 



TIN. 



'T^HE Martin is inferior in fize to the former, 

 •^ and its tail much lefs forked. The head and 

 upper part of the body, except the rump, is black 

 glofTed with blue : the bread, belly and rump are 

 white : the feet are covered with a fhort white 

 down. This is the fecond of the fwallow kind 

 that appears in our country. It builds under the 

 eaves of houfes, with the fame materials, and in 

 the fame form as the houfe fwallow, only its neft 

 is covered above, having only a fmall hole for 

 admittance. We have alfo feen this fpecies build 

 againft the fides of high cliffs over the fea. For 

 the time that the young keep the neft, the old one 

 feeds them, adhering by the claws to the outfide : 

 but as foon as they quit it, feeds them flying, by 

 a motion quick and almoft imperceptible to thofe 

 who are not ufed to obferve it. 



It is a later breed than the preceding by fome 



days: 



Descri: 



