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SWALLOW, 



Place anb 



Manners. 



Found at Cayenne, but not in plenty j alfo in Guiana, on the 

 borders of rivers. Skims the furface of the water, like ours in 

 Europe i and is often feen perched on the floating trees which 

 chance has thrown into the ftream. 



AMBERGRIS 

 SW. 



Description. 



Place. 



L'Hirondelle de Rivage du Senegal, Brif. orti. ii. p. 508. pi. 45. f. 4, 

 L'Hirondelle ambree, Buf. oif. vi. p. 612. 



ClZEof aWren: length five inches and a half. Bill half 

 an inch j colour blackilh : the whole plumage is grey 

 brown, deepeft on the head and quills : tail very forked : legs 

 brown. 



Inhabits Senegal. Is faid to frnell very ftrong of ember" 

 gris *. 



10. 

 4- SAND 

 MARTIN. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Hirundo riparia, tin. Syjl. i. p. 344. N° 4. — Kram. el. p. 381. N° 4. — 



Brun. N° 291 Mulhr, p. 34. N° 289. — Fri/cb. t. 18. — Georgi 



Rei/e, N° 175. — Faun. Suec. 273. 

 L'Hirondelle de Rivage, Brif. orn. ii. p. jo6. N° iz.—Bu/. oif, vi. p. 632. 



— PL enl. 543. f. 2. 

 Hirundo riparia Aldro<v. Rati Syn. p. 71. A. 3. 

 Sand Martin, or Shore-bird, Will. orn. p. 213. t. 39.— Albin. ii. pi. 56. b. 



■— Br. Zool. i. N° \io.—ArSl. Zool. 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



T E N G T H four inches and three quarters. Bill five lines, 

 and blackifh : upper parts of the plumage moufe-colour : 

 throat and under parts white : on the breaft a bar of moufe- 

 colour : legs blackilh, feathered behind. 



* Seia. 



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