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from Carolina and Florida, towards Pennsylvania, 

 in the month of March. See Lath. Synop. Supp. 

 3d vol. p. 257. 



HIRUNDO MELBA. 



Brown, the under parts white; inhabits the 

 Fretum Herculeum. 



HIRUNDO PRATINCOLA. 



This large species is probably the one alluded to 

 by Scaliger, when he said he saw a swallow of the 

 size of a turtle dove. It is brown above and white 

 below, with a blackish line about its neck. Inha- 

 bits the coasts of the South of Europe. Two 

 specimens have been seen alive in England, an 

 account of which may be found in the Trans. Lin. 

 Soc. of London. 



HIRUNDO ERYTHROCEPHALA. 

 Small red headed species. Found in India. 



HIRUNDO AOONALASCHKENSIS. 

 Four inches long. Inhabits Aoonalaschka. 



HIRUNDO INDICA. 

 Four inches long; head red. India. 



