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Hirundo pelasgia. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 345. 10. Grnel. Syst. Nat. 



1. 1023. Lath. Ind, Orn. 2. 581. 20. Wils. Amer. Orn. 5. 



48. Vieil. Ois. del' Amer. Sept. 1. 63. 

 Hirundo carolinensis. Briss. 2. 501. 9. 

 Hirondelle de la Caroline. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 6. /OO. 

 L'Hirondelle brune acutipenne de la Louisiane. Buff. Hist. Nat. 



Ois. 6. 6gg. 

 L'Hirondelle a queue pointue de la Louisiane. Buff. PI. Enl. 



726. f. 1. 

 Hirondelle acutipenne de Cayenne. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 6. 



701. Buff. PI. Enl. 726. f. 1. 



L'Hirondelle acutipenne. Vieil. Ois. de I' Amer. Sept. 1. 63. p. 33. 

 American Swallow. Catesb. Carol. Appen. t. 8. 

 Chimney Swallow. Wils. Amer. Om. 5. 48. pi. ZQ.f. 1. 

 Aculeated Swallow. Pen. Arct. Zoo/. 2. 335. pi. 18. Lath. Gen. 



Syn. 4. 553. W.Lath. Syn. Sup. II. 258. 2. 



HIRUXDO pelasgia is in length four inches and 

 a half; and is entirely of deep sooty brown, ex- 

 cept the chin and supercilia, which are dusky 

 whitish : beak extremely short, and black : eyes 

 black, surrounded with a bare blackish skin or 

 orbit : legs covered with a loose purplish skin ; 

 thighs naked, and of the same tint : feet extremely 

 muscular, the three fore toes nearly of a length, 

 claws very sharp : the wings when closed extend 

 one inch and a half beyond the tip of the tail, 

 which is slightly rounded, and consists of ten fea- 

 thers, scarcely longer than their coverts ; their 

 shafts extend beyond the vanes, are sharp pointed, 

 strong, and very elastic, and of a deep black co- 

 lour : the shafts of the wing-quills are also re- 

 markably strong : the female can scarcely be dis- 

 tinguished from the male by her plumage. The 

 two varieties of this bird mentioned by BufFon 

 v. x. p. i. 9 



