134 BROWN SWALLOW. 



caudacuta ; it being much larger, and differing in 

 other particulars from that bird : its length is six 

 inches and a half, breadth about twenty : its beak 

 and legs are dusky : the forehead is pale : the 

 prevailing colour of the plumage is dusky brown, 

 the head and neck deepest, and tinged with green : 

 middle of the back light brown : quills and tail deep 

 brown green ; the greater quills black on the outer 

 edges : under parts of the body dark brown : throat 

 and chin whitish: vent and under tail-coverts 

 white. Native place unknown. 



