SMUG Eek OF ME 
the middle of March, and likewife in September and Oéfoder, on their 
return fouthward. 
FiIS is twice the fize of the laft, though in many things. not un- 
like : the bill is broad and flat, and the claws ftrong: the general 
colour is dufky, with a glofs of green on the wings and tail, and the 
inner wing coverts mixed with white: the forehead is white, and the 
throat nearly fo, being very pale: the tail feathers furnifhed at the 
ends with. projecting points, as fharp as a-needle. 
Inhabits New South Wales; met with in moft plenty in. February; 
and among other infects, obferved to feed on a large locuft, which at 
that feafon is very common. 
SIZE of the lait: general colour dufky brown, and without any 
tinge of green on the upper parts: throat and rump blueifh white: 
the tail feathers run to a point, but are deftitute of ve needle-fhaped — 
procefies at the tips. 
It is found with the laft, and report affirms it to be the female; 
but it may be doubted, becaufe in the Mish {pecies, both fexes 
have the tails alike. 
Hirundo javanica, Mz/: Carl/. iv. tab. 100. 
Trifle lefs than the Chimney Swallow: biil flat, pointed, black; 
noftrils oval; gape wide; tongue bifid: wings longer than the 
tail: the body above blueith black, gloffy : forehead, throat, and fore 
part of the neck ferruginous: breaft, belly, rump, and under part of 
the wings, pale afh colour: quills black: tail even at the end; the 
two middle feathers plain black, the others the fame, marked with a 
white {pot on each: legs black, 
Inhabits Fava; makes the neft in the earth, 
Lila 
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3. 
NEEDLE- 
TAILED 
SW. 
DescriPrron, 
PLACE. 
4. 
NEW- 
HOLLAND 
SW. 
DescriPTion, 
PLAce. 
DESCRIPTION, 
PLACE: 
