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SAND MARTIN. 

 (Hirundo riparia.) 



Hi. tnurina, gula abdomineque albis. 



Mouse-coloured Swallow, with the throat and abdomen white. 



Hirundo riparia. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 344. 4. Lin. Faun. Succ. 



273. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. lOIQ. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 5/5. 10. 



Briss. Orn. 2. 506. 12. IVils. Amcr. Orn. 5. 46. 

 L'Hirondelle de rivage. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 6. 632. Buft\ 



PI. Enl 543. f. 2. 

 Bank Swallow, or Sand Martin. Wils. Amcr. Orn. 5. 46. pi. 



38. f. 4. 

 Sand Martin. Pen. Brit. ZooL 1. 170. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 



332. Albin. Birds. 2. 56. B. Lath. Gen. Sun. 4. 5<)8. 10. 



Bewick. Brit. Birds. 1. 260. Mont. Brit. Birds. l.Leiain. 



Brit. Birds. 2. 125. 



THE Sand or Bank Martin is near five inches 

 in length : its beak is dusky : irides hazel : super- 

 cilia whitish : head, neck, breast, and back, mouse- 

 coloured brown : wings the same, with their in- 

 terior feathers singularly notched at the tip : 

 throat, fore-part of the neck, belly, and vent, 

 white; tail brown; the outer feather slightly mar- 

 gined with white : legs dusky, slightly feathered 

 behind. 



This species is common to Europe and Ame- 

 rica, arriving in this country first of the Swallow 

 tribe: it is the scarcest and most local with us, 

 but is extremely abundant in America : its nest 

 is placed on the high sand-bank of a river, quarry, 

 or gravel-pit, at a few feet from the surface, and 



