﻿576 SWALLOW. 



mage on the upper parts of the body is of a purplifh black r 

 throat, fore part of the neck, and breaft, deep grey : belly, 

 thighs, and under tail coverts, white, fhaded with brown ; on the 

 fides it is alfo brownifti : quills and tail blackifh, edged with, 

 brown ; the laft forked : legs and claws dufky. 

 Placz; This inhabits Hudforis Bay, where it is called Sajhaun-pajhuby 



the natives. 



25. Hirundo tapera, Lin.SyJl.l. p. 345. N° 9. 



BRASILIAN SW. L'Hironddle d'Amerique, Brif. on. ii. p. 502. N° 10. pi. 45. f. 3. 

 La Tapere, Buf.oif.v'i. p. 678. 

 Hirundo Americana, Brafilieniibus Tapera difta, Rait Sjn. p. 72. N° 5. 



p. 185. N° 32. — Will. ern. p. 214. N° 6. 

 Swallow, Shane's 'J am. p. 312. pi. 51. 



Description. [" ENGTH five inches and three quarters. Bill eight lines 

 long, and of a black colour : upper parts of the plumage 

 brown : throat, fore part of the neck, breaft, fides, and thighs, 

 greyifh brown: belly and under tail coverts white: quills blackifh 

 brown : tail fcarcely at all forked ; colour the fame as the quills : 

 legs and claws brown. 

 Place. Inhabits South America* ; being found at Brajil and Cayenne ; 



alfo at Jamaica f. Shane obferves, that they are only there for 

 fix months, as the Swallows are in Europe; frequenting the plains 

 and favannas of that ifiand ; now and then alighting on the tops 

 of fh rubs. 



* Brijfon. f ''»««. 



Hirondelle 



