196 love's meinie. 



thirteen minutes. I imagine a Swift would at 

 least have doubled this rate of flight, and that 

 we may safely take a hundred miles an hour 

 as an average of swallow-speed. This, how- 

 ever, is less by three-fifths than Michelet's 

 estimate. See above, Lecture II., § 48. 



I have substituted ' bank ' for ' sand ' in the 

 English name, since all the six quoted 

 authorities give it this epithet in Latin or 

 French, and Bewick in English. Also, it may 

 be well thus to distinguish it from birds of the 

 sea-shore. 



V. 



145. HIRUNDO SAGITTA. SWIFT. 



Hirundo Apus. L. 



Martinet Noir. F. 



Geyr-schwalbe. (Vulture-Swallow.) T. 



Rondone. (Plural, Rondini.) I. 



Cypselus Apus. G. and Y. 



Swift, Black Martin, or Deviling. B. 



I think it will be often well to admit the 

 license of using a substantive for epithet, (as 

 one says rock-bird or sea-bird, and not 'rocky,' 

 or * marine,') in Latin as well as in English. 



