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Somme in morning sunlight, dashing deep 

 tlirough the water at every stoop, like a hard- 

 ijast stone. 



IV. 



144. HIRUNDO RIPARIA. BANK MARTLET. 



Hirundo Riparia. L. 



Hirondelle de Rivage. F. 



Rhein-schwalbe, (Rhine- Swallow,) — ufer- 

 schwalbe, (Shore - Swallow,) — erd - schwalbe, 

 (Earth-Swallow). T. 



Topino. (The mouse-colour.) — Rondine de 

 riva. I. 



Cotyle Riparia. G. Hirundo Riparia. Y. 



Bank-Martin. B, 



The Italian name, 'Topino,' is a good 

 familiar one, the bird being scarcely larger 

 than a mouse, and " the head, neck, breast, 

 and back of a mouse-colour." (B.) It is the 

 smallest of the Swallow tribe, and shortest 

 of wing; accordingly, I find Spallanzani's 

 experiment on the rate of swallow-flight was, 

 for greater certainty and severity, made with 

 this apparently feeblest of its kind : — a marked 

 Topino, brought from its nest at Pavia to 

 Milan, (fifteen miles,) flew back to Pavia in 



