HOUSE SWALLOW. 429 



XXXI. SWALLOW. Gen. Birds, LV. 



Br. Zcol.ti'' 16%.— Latham, li. ^60. ^^^ ChimnST. 



Hirundo ruftica. Ladu Swala, Faun. Sitec, N" 270. 



L'Hirondelle de cheminee, De Buffon, vi. 591. — PL Enl. 543. — Lev. Mus,^— 

 Bl. Mus. 



CW. With the head, upper part of the body, and coverts of the 

 -wings, black, gloffed with rich purplifli blue : forehead red : 

 under fide ferruginous. That of Europe white; in the Male tinged 

 with red : tail black ; every feather, unlefs the two middle, marked 

 with a white fpot near the end. 



Differs in nothing from the £«g-/i/5 chimney Swallow, but in the 

 rednefs of the under fide. 



Thefe birds inhabit, during fummer, Newfoundland, and other Plac*^ 



parts of North America. Build on lofty rocks and precipices, efpecially 

 fuch as yield flielter by overhanging their bafe. Others, fince the 

 arrival of the Europeans, affedt the haunts of mankind, and make 

 their nefts in barns, ftables, and out-houfes : in fome parts they 

 are, on that account, called Barn Swallows. The Swedes give them 

 the fame name, Ladu Swala^ becaufe in their country they alfo 

 neftle in barns. 



They appear in the Jerfies the beginning of April, wet, fays Mr. 

 Kalm, from the fea or lakes, at the bottom of which they had pafled 

 torpid the whole winter — I (hould rather imagine, from the cafual 

 ihowers they met with in their long flight from their winter quar- 

 ters : and that they do talce fuch, Mr. Kalm himfelf is v/itnefs to, 

 by meeting with them on their pafTage at fea, nine hundred and 

 twenty miles from any land *. 



In the province of New Tork they appear in May. Make the 

 fame fort of neft with the European. Lay in June, Difappear in- 

 Augujif or early in September. 



• Voy. i. 24. — See alfo Br. Zoal. \, p. 344, &«. 



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