WHITE-THROATED SWALLOW. 99 



crevices of rocks, or holes in the wall, and lays 

 four white eggs : its whole body is dusky black, 

 except the tips of the interior webs of the lesser 

 wing-feathers, and the base of the rump, which 

 are white : the eyes are yellowish brow r n : female 

 not quite so dark as the male. 



WHITE-THROATED SWALLOW. 

 (Hirundo gularis.) 



Hi. brunnea, subtus albida, fascia pectorali, lateribusque brunncis, 



gula alba, cauda maximeforficata. 

 Brown Swallow, beneath whitish, with a band on the breast, 



and the sides of the body brown ; throat white ; tail greatly 



forked. 

 Le Martinet a gorge blanc. Le Vail. Ois. d'Afri. 5. 143. pi. 



243. 



THE head, the back and sides of the neck, the 

 back, rump, wing, and tail-coverts, the upper 

 part of the tail, and the wing-quills, of an earth 

 brown colour, varying according to the position 

 to greyish : the quills and tail are darkest, with 

 the outer edges of the former light-coloured, and 

 the inner webs white towards their tips : the tail 

 is very much forked : the throat is pure white : 

 the lower part of the neck, and part of the breast, 

 with a fascia, similar in colour to the upper parts 

 of the body ; sides of the body the same : abdo- 

 men dirty white : the under tail-coverts brownish 



