294 TEN YEAKS IN SWEDEN. 



62. CAPRIMULGUS EUROPJEUS, L. Natt Skarra. Tlie Night 



Jar. D. F. 



Length about 10 in.; tail 2 in. beyond the closed 



wings. Colour, above grey, spotted with longitudinal 



black spots and streaks ; marked underneath with rusty 



yellow, and black-brown transverse bands. The female 



is like the male in colour, but entirely wants the large 



white spots on the inner fan of the wing feathers, and 



the white tip on the outer tail feather. 



Is a summer migrant to Sweden, and although it seems 



to go pretty far up, is not met with in Lapland. The eggs, 



usually two, laid on the ground among heather, are oblong 



shiny white, marbled with brown and grey spots and dashes. 



Common in Finland as far up as Kupio. 



DIURNAL. 

 Byes moderate ; plumage close. 



Gen. Cypselus, 111, 



Wings long and curved, like scymitars. Second feather 

 longest ; tail cloven, ten feathers ; tarsus very short ; plumed 

 to the toes, which are all in front. 



63. CYPSELUS APUS, L. Torn Svala. The Swift. D. F. 



Length 7 in. ; wings 1-^ in. longer than the tail. 

 Colour altogether black, with a greenish tint; throat 

 white. 



Met with everywhere, far up within the Polar circle. The 

 Alpine swift has once been in the winter found dead in Lod- 

 derup church, in Denmark. 



Gren. Hirundoj L. 



Tail deeply cloven ; the two side feathers considerably 

 larger than the rest. 



64. HIRUNDO EUSTICA, L. Ladu Svala. The Swallow. D. F. 

 Length about 7 in. Colour, above all black, with a 

 blue gloss; forehead and throat red-brown; breast, belly, 

 and under tail coverts whitish; tail feathers with a 

 white spot on the inner fan. 

 More common than the last, and goes quite as high up. 



