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SWAT Oy W: 
to be the fabricator of the- nefts in queftion, muft be totally diftinét 
from the one here defcribed, as that is reprefented fmaller than a 
Wren, with a white belly, and white {pots on the end of the tail *, but 
no fuch marks are to be found in our fpecies. 
It is fer from improbable to fuppofe, that even more than the two 
fpecies above hinted may be concerned. Willughby, Ray, Klein, and 
fome others, call their bird particoloured, the meaning of which is by 
no means clear. De Vries, fpecifically as large as a Swallow, and 
black +; and Sir George Staunton, in his fhort defcription, fays, fmall 
srey Swallows, with bellies of a dirty white ; but he obferves, they 
were fo fimall, and flew fo quick, that they efcaped the fhot fired at 
them. The way to reconcile thefe differences muft be left to future: 
obfervers. 
The fpecimen from which the figure is taken, is now with its young 
in my colleé&tion, prefented to me by Sir Fo/eph Banks, having been 
fent to him from Sumatra. 
I have alfo been enabled to give a figure of the neft, being not 
only furnifhed with an accurate drawing of one, but jlikewife the nett 
itfelf, from Mr. Hay, junior, of Portfea. 
Hirundo Pelafgia, Ind. Ora. ii. p. 581. 30.—Bartram’s Trav. p. 290. 
Aculeated Swallow, Gen. Syz. iv. p. 583.32. 
THs Mr. Bartram calls the Houfe Swallow, becaufe it builds in 
chimnies, inthe fame manner as our Chimney Swallow does in 
Europe’; which laft is alfo found in America. He obferved vaft flights 
not only of this, but the Baxk Martin, pafs northward from Carolina 
and Florida, towards Pennfylvania, where they breed in fpring, about 
* Defcribed by M. Je Poivre, and taken up by Brifon and Linneus, and after- 
ward: by WM. Bufjon.—See alfo Geria. Orn. iv.t. 411. fig.z. In alli thefe figures, the 
wings reach no farther than the rump. 
_ + “ Men find int Konighryck Tanquin, des gelycks op de Kiift van Coromandel 
<* Seekere Soort von Swarte Yogelen fo groot als cene gemeene Swaluw.” 
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