SWALLOW 



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INSESSORES. 

 FTSSIROST/iES. 



H1RUNI)IX]D,E. 



The 

 Chimneii 



THE SWALLOW. 



Ifirundo rustica, Chimneii Swullino, Penn. Brit Zool. vol. i. p. 543. 



Mont. Ornith. Diet. 

 Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 297. 

 1 LEM. Brit. An. p. 60. 

 Seley, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 120. 

 Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 157. 

 Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. xviii. 

 Hirondelle de Cheminie, Tejim. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 427. 



HiEUNDO. Generic Characters. — Beak very siiort, depressed, and very 

 wide at the base, upper mandible curved downwards at the point, the culmen 

 elevated. Nostrils basal, oval, partly covered by membrane. Legs short, toes 

 slender, three in front, one behind ; claws curved. Wings long and pointed. 



" The Swallow," says Sir Humphry Davy in his Sal- 

 monia, " is one of my favourite birds, and a rival of the 

 Nightingale ; for he cheers my sense of seeing as much as the 

 other docs my sense of hearing. He is the glad prophet of 



