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THE Peruvian Swallow has the head, throat, 

 and neck, grey: breast with an ash-coloured fascia: 

 upper wing-coverts, quills, and tail, pale grey, 

 edged with yellowish grey : beak, back, rump, 

 scapulars, upper tail-coverts, and claws, black : 

 under parts of the body pure white. Native of 

 Peru. 



ST. DOMINGO SWALLOW. 



( Hirundo dominicensis. ) 



Hi. nigro-ch alt/ben, abdomine albo, rcctricibut nigricantibus* 



Steel-black Swallow, with a white abdomen, and dusky tail- 

 feathers. 



Hirundo dominicensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 1025. Briss. 2. 

 493. 3. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 577. 18. Vieil. Ois. del'Amer. 

 Sept. 1. 59. 



Le grand Martinet noire ^ ventre blanc. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 

 6. 609- 



Hirondelle d'Araerique. Buff. PI. Enl 545. f. 1. 



L'Hirondelle & ventre blanc. Vieil. Ois. de I'Amer. Sept. 1. 59. 

 pi. 28. male. 29. female. 



St. Domingo Swallow. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4, 5/3. 18. 



INHABITS the southern parts of North America, 

 and also many of the West-India islands, particu- 

 larly St. Domingo : it is the size of Hirundo 

 rustica, and measures seven inches in length : its 

 beak is black : its legs and claws are brown : the 

 whole bird, with the exception of the belly, and 

 under tail-coverts, which are white, is of a beautiful 

 shining steel blue : its tail is very slightly forked ; 

 and, with the wings, is dusky: female with the 



