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COMMON SWALLOW. 

 (Hirundo rustica.) 



Hi. nigro-carulescens subtus albida,fronte gulaque castaneis, rec- 



tricibus ditabus intermediis exceptis, macula alba notatis. 

 Black-blue Swallow, beneath whitish, with the forehead and 



throat chesnut, all but the two middle tail-feathers marked 



with an oval white spot. 

 Hirundo rustica. Lin. Syst. Nat. l. 343. 1. Lin. Faun. Suec. 



270.Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 1015. Lath. Ind. Orn.2. 572. 1. 



Turt. Brit. Faun. 1. 48. 132. 

 Hirundo domestica. Briss. 2. 486. 1. 

 Hirondelle de cheminee. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. Q. 591. t. 25. f. 1, 



Buff'. PI. Enl. 543. / 1. 

 Chimney, or Common Swallow. Pen. Brit. Zool. 1. 168. t. 58. 



Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 330. Albin. Birds. 45. Betuick. Brit. 



Birds.l. Mont. Brit. Birds. 2. Mont. Sup. Lath. Gen. Syn. 



4. 561. Lath. Syn. Sup. 192. Lenin. Brit. Birds. 3. PI. 123. 

 )5. Tola nivea. 



Entirely of a snowy white colour. 

 Hirundo alba. Briss. 2. 489- A. 

 White Swallow. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 563, 



THE Common or Chimney Swallow is rather 

 more than six inches in length : its beak is black : 

 irides hazel : forehead and chin chesnut red : top 

 of the head and all the upper parts of the body 

 black, glossed with purplish blue : quills in some 

 positions of a greenish brown, in others of a blue 

 black : upper part of the breast black ; lower part 

 and belly white : tail greatly forked, with all but 

 the two middle feathers marked with a white oval 

 spot on their inner webs, near the tips : legs short, 



