SWALLOW. 



1NSESSORES. 



FISSIROSTRES. 



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HIRUNDINIDJE. 



THE SWALLOW. 



Hirundo rustica. 



Hirundo rustica, Chimney Swallow, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 543. 



MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



The BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. i. 



p. 297. 



., FLEM. Brit. An. p. 60. 



Chimney SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. 



p. 120. 



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 157. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Hironddle de Cheminee, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. 



p. 427. 



HIKUNDO. Generic Characters. Beak very short, 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 



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