HIRUNDraiD.E — THE SWALLOWS — HIRUNDO. 



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Hirundo horreorum, Barton. 



THE BARN SWALLOW. 



Hirundo horreorum. Barton, Fragments, N. II. Penn. 1799, 17. — Baikd, P. R. Rep. IX. 



Birds, 308. — Cooper and Suckley, XII. iii. Zool. of W. T. 184. 

 Hirundo rii/a, ViEiLLOT, Ois. Am. Sept. I. 1807, 60; pi. xxx. (Not of Gmclin.) — Cassin, 



Illust. I. 18.55, 243.— Brewer, N. Am. Ool. I. 18.'>7, 91; pi. v. f. 63-67 (eggs).— 



NOTTALL, Man. 2d ed. 726. — Heermann, P. R. Rep. X. vi. 34. 

 Hirundo Americana, Wilson, Am. Orn. V. 1812, 34 ; pi. xxxviii. f. 1, 2. (Not of Gmelin.) 



— Rich. F. B. A. IL 1831, 329. 

 Hirundo ruslica, Audubon, Orn. Biog. II. 1834, 413 ; pi. 173. Ib. Syn. 1839, 35. Ib. Birds 



Amcr. I. 1840, 181 ; pi. 48. (Not of Linnanis.) 



Sr. CH.A.R. Tail very dcepl}- forked ; outer feathers several inches longer than the 

 inner, verv narrow towards the end. Aljove glossy blue, with concealed white in the 

 middle of the back. Throat chestnut ; rest of lower part reddish white, not conspicuously 

 different. A steel-blue collar on the upper part of the breast, interrupted in the middle. 



Tail feathers with a white spot near the middle, on the inner web. Feinale with the 



outer tail feather not quite so long. Length, 6.. 50 ; extent, 1'2.75 ; 

 Iris brown ; bill black ; feet slate-color. 



Hab. North America, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. 



4.75; tail, 4.50. 



This well-known and beautiful liird is less abundant along the western 

 than the eastern coast, its place being filled in great part by the IT. luni- 

 frons, and perhaps also because it does not find so many suitable places for 

 building in. As settlements multiply they seem to be gradually increasing 

 about farms near the coast, building in the barns, and living in perfect liar- 



