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SWALLOW. 



12. 



4- CRAG SW. 



Description. 



Plage and 

 Manners. 



L'Hirondelle grife desRochers, Buf. elf, vi. p. 64?. 

 Lev. Muf. 



I ENGTH five inches and a half. Bill black: plumage 

 above like the Sand Martin: quills and tail grey brown, 

 margined with rufous : the tail fcarcely forked ; the two middle 

 feathers, and the outer one on each fide, plain, j the four on each 

 fide, between thefe, marked on the inner web with a white fpot : 

 the under part of the body rufous : fides inclining to brown : legs 

 covered with grey down, mixed with brown : claws black. 



Thefe inhabit the rocks and crags about Savoy; arriving there 

 the middle of April, and departing the 15th of Augufi, for the 

 moft part; now and then fome ftragglers remain to the 10th of 

 October. This fpecies is alfo found in the mountains of Ail~ 

 vergne and Dauphihe. I have alfo received it from Gibraltar. 



It feems to have great affinity to the laft. 



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DAURIAN SW. 



Description. 



Hirundo daurica, Lin. Mantif. 1 77 1. p. 528. — AB. Holm. 1769.. 

 Hirundo alpeftris, Pall. Tr. vol. ii. p. 709. N° 19. 

 — — — daurica, Spic. Zool. 



I G G E R than the Chimney Swallow : the bill a little 

 broader : crown of the head, bafe of the wings, and between 

 them, alfo the tail coverts, of a deep fteel black : on each fide of 

 the head, from the eye to the nape, taking in the temples, a tri- 

 angular ferruginous patch ; in fome fubjecls meeting at the back, 

 part : lower part of the back and rump pale ferruginous : under 

 parts dirty white, ftreaked with black down the fhaft : tail glofiy 

 black, and very forked 3 the four middle feathers nearly even ; 



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