WHITE-COLLARED SWIFT. 75 



Lc grand Martinet ventre blanc. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 6. 660. 

 Greatest Martin, or Swift. Edwards. 1. 27. 

 White-bellied Swift. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 586. 36. 



THE White-bellied Swift is in length eight inches 

 and a half: beak slightly bent, and black: hides 

 brown : neck with a grey brown collar, variegated 

 with dusky: upper parts of the body grey brown, 

 with a reddish green gloss in certain positions : 

 throat, breast, and belly, white: sides dusky, varie- 

 gated with white ; vent and under tail-coverts like 

 the back : legs flesh-colour. 



Found amongst the mountains of Spain : also 

 on the borders of the Rhone, at Malta, Aleppo, 

 and other mountainous countries of those climates: 

 it is not very common ; lives on the same food 

 as the common Swift : it flies high ; and breeds 

 in holes of the rocks, about the latter end of April, 

 in the mountains of Savoy and Tyrol, after re- 

 maining amongst the ponds and marshes for fifteen 

 or twenty days from its arrival in those parts. 



WHITE-COLLARED SWIFT. 

 (Cypselus cayanensis.) 



C\.i-iolaceo-nigricans, capite nigro, gutture fascia oculari bifida 



jemoribusque albis. 

 Violet-black Swift, with a black head, the throat, bifid fascia 



near the eyes, and thighs white. 

 Hirundo cayanensis. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 583. 34. Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. 1. 1024. 

 Le Martinet collier blanc. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 6. 671. Buffi 



PL Enl. 725. / 2. 

 White-collared Swift. Lath, Gen. Syn. 4. 587. 37- 



