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HIRUNDO URBICA. THE WHITE-RUMPED 

 SWALLO\y. 



HOUSE SWALLOW. WINDOW SWALLOW. MARTIN. HOUSE MARTIN. 

 MARTINET. MARTLET. 



Fio. 267. 



Hirundo urbica. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. .347. 



Hirundo urbica. Lath. Ind. Orn. IL 57.3. 



House Martin. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Hirondelle de fen^tre. Hirundo urbica. Temm. Man. d'Orn. I. 428. 



Martin. Hirundo urbica. Selb. Illustr. L 123. 



Hirundo urbica. House Martin. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 158. 



Head, hind-neck, and fore part of the hack glossy steel-blue ; 

 rump and lower parts white ; tail deeply forked ; tarsi and toes 

 feathered. 



Male. — The Martin, or Window Swallow, or, as it may 

 with propriety be named, the White -ruinped Swallow, is 

 somewhat smaller than the Red-fronted species, or Chimney 

 Swallow, from which it is readily distinguished when on wing, 

 by the white colour of part of its back, but which it closely 

 resembles in its habits. The body is ovate, slightly compress- 

 ed, the neck short, the head rather large. The bill is shorter 

 and a little higher than that of the preceding species, but other- 

 wise similar ; both mandibles being straight, the tip of the 

 upper slightly declinate, and the notch, although small, di.s- 



