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COMMON MARTIN. 

 (Hit-undo urbica.) 



Hi. nigro-ccerulescens subtus uropygioque albis, rectricibus imma- 



culatis. 



Black-blue Swallow, beneath and rump white, with the tail-fea- 

 thers immaculate. 

 Hirundo urbica. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 344. 3. Lin. Faun. Suec. 



271. 1. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 101/. Lath. Ltd. Orn. 2.573. 3. 



Turt. Brit. Faun. 1. 48. 133. 



Hirundo rustica, sive agrestis. Briss. Orn. 2. 4C)0. 2. 

 Hirondelle a cul blanc. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. Q. 6l4. t. 15.f. 2. 

 Le petit Martinet. Buff. PL Enl. 542. f. 2. 

 Martin, Martinet, Martlet, or Window Swallow. Pen. Brit. 



Zool. 1. l6g.Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 33l.Albin. Birds. 2. 5(5. 



A. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 564. 3. Lath. Syn. Sup. 192. Bew. 



Brit. Birds. 1. 255. Mont. Brit. Birds. 2. Mont. Sup. 



Letvin. Brit. Birds. 3. 124. 



THIS well-known species of Swallow is about 

 five inches and a half in length : its beak is black : 

 irides hazel : upper parts of the body and tail of a 

 glossy blue black : rump and all the under parts 

 of the body white : secondaries with a narrow 

 white fringe : tail slightly forked : legs covered 

 with white downy feathers as far as the claws, 

 which are also white. 



Dr. Latham mentions having seen a variety of 

 this bird which differed in being dusky where the 

 above is black, and in having the quills, tail, and 

 upper coverts of the latter, tipped with white ; 

 but it most probably belongs to another species, 



