8 WALLOW. 



fiVSESSORES. 



FISSIROSTRES. 



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T1IRUND1NIDM 



THE SWALLOW. 







Hirundo rustica. 



Hirundo rmlica, Chimney Swallow, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 543. 



MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



The BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 297. 



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 60. 



Chimney SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 120. 



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 157. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. xviii. 



Hirondelle de Cheminee, TEMM. Man. d'Omith. voL i. p. 427. 



HIRUNDO. Generic Characters* Beak very short, depressed, and very wide 

 at the base, upper mandible curved downwards at the point, the culraen elevated. 

 Nostrils basal, oval, partly covered by membrane. Legs short, toes slender, three 

 in front, one behind ; claws curved. Wings long and pointed. 



" THE SWALLOW," says Sir Humphrey Davy in his Sal- 

 monia, " is one of my favourite birds, and a rival of the 

 Nightingale ; for he cheers my sense of seeing as much as 



