RED-FRONTED SWALLOW. 91 



FIGURED in plate 4. of 1'Histoire Naturelle 

 d'^Egypt, by Mons. Savigny, but the letter-press 

 not having made its appearance in this country, 

 I have named it after that celebrated naturalist : 

 by the figure, it seems to have all the upper parts, 

 and a band on the breast, of a beautiful blue ; with 

 the forehead, throat, cheeks, abdomen, vent, and 

 under tail-coverts bright fulvous ; quills dark fus- 

 cous ; tail with the outer feathers very much elon- 

 gated, and forked. Native of Egypt. 



RED-FRONTED SWALLOW. 

 (Hirundo rufifrons.) 



Hi. c<zrulescens,fronte rttfescente, abdomine tectricibusque cauda 



inferioris albis. 

 Blueish Swallow, with the forehead reddish ; abdomen, and 



under tail-coverts, \rhite. 

 L'Hirondelle a front roux. Le Vail. Ols. <TAJn. 5. 154. PI. 



245. f. 2. 



THIS species has the beak and feet black : the 

 head, back of the neck, shoulders, wings, back, 

 tail, and its upper coverts, with the throat and 

 breast, of a shining blue-black : the under parts of 

 the body, from the breast to the tail-coverts, of 

 a pure white : the forehead red : eyes brown : the 

 tail of the male is very much forked, of the female 

 not quite so much; in other respects she resembles 

 the male. Inhabits the southern parts of Africa, 

 arriving at the Cape of Good Hope in the spring, 

 and retiring northward in the autumn. 



