Se Ves? Wik (Ox, We 
Genus. XLVI SWALLOW. 
N° x. Efculent Sw. N° 4. New Holland Sw. 
2. Aculeated Sw. 5. Javan Sw. 
3. Needle-tailed Sw. 
Hirendo efculenta, Jnd. Orn. il. p. 580. 26.—Olcar. Myf. tab. 14. fig. 2 and 6, 
(the nef.) é 
* Chinefifche Felfen Schwalbe, De Vries, S. 279. 
Small Grey Swallow, witha dirty white belly, Zé. to China, i. p. 288.——Jd. 
ii. p- +5. 
Efculent Swallow, Gen. Syn. iv. p. 578. 28. 
SIZE of the Sand Martin: iength four inches and a half: from 
the tip to tip of the wings expanded, full eleven inches: the bill 
is {mall and black; gape wide: general colour of the plumage dufky 
black, and gloffy above; all the under parts from the chin to the 
vent pale afh colour: the wings are very long, meafuring from the 
joint of the fhoulder to the end of the quills, four inches and a half; 
and when clofed, exceeding the- end of the tail by at leaft one inch: 
the tail is rather forked, all the feathers rounded at the ends, and all 
of a plain dufky black colour; the three outer feathers on each fide 
are one inch and three quarters long, and of nearly equal lengths, 
but the three interior fhorten by degrees as they approach inwards, 
the two middle ones being no more than one inch and a quarter: the 
legs are dufky, and bare of feathers. 
We are inclined to credit, with Sir George Staunton*, the poflibility 
of more than one fpecies being concerned in making the much ef- 
teemed nefts; but in cafe it be not fo, the bird formerly fuppofed 
* Emb. to China, i. p. 290. 
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