ESCULENT SWALLOW. 1 1 1 



gined with yellowish grey) of a shining black: 

 under parts ash-colour. Native of Peru and 

 Otaheite. 



ESCULENT SWALLOW. 

 (Hirundo fuciphaga.) 



Hi. supra nigricans, nitens, subtus cinerea, cauda tola immacu- 



lata. 

 Swallow above shining dusky, beneath ash-coloured, with the 



tail entirely without spots. 



Hirundo fuciphaga. Act. Holm. 1812. vol. 33. p. 151. 

 Esculent Swallow. Lath. Si/n. Sup. II. 25/. 1. 

 Small grey Swallow, with a dirty white belly. Staunt. Emb. 



Chin. v. 1. p. 288. u. 2. p. 5. 

 Layong-Layong. Marsden. Hist. SumaUp. 141 ? 



THE Esculent Swallow is the size of the Sand 

 Martin : it is four inches and a half in length, 

 and eleven in expanse : its beak is black : the 

 upper parts of the plumage shining dusky black : 

 under parts pale ash-colour : wings, when closed, 

 one inch longer than the tail, which is slightly 

 forked, and has all the feathers of an uniform 

 black colour, and rounded at the end ; the outer 

 feathers are one inch and three quarters, and the 

 inner only one inch and a quarter, in length. 



The bird described by Brisson, Linnaeus, Buffon, 

 and others, as the Esculent Swallow, does not ap- 

 pear to be known to the naturalists of the present 

 day, it having been described by the former from 



