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Place. 



SWALLOW. 



with oblong brown fpots, which are moft frequent on the neck 

 and bread : bill and legs as in the other. 



From the fize, colour of legs, and general appearance, it is moft 

 likely to prove a variety of the former. Both are found at 

 Guiana, where they frequent the moift favannas, fkimming the fur- 

 face of the earth in fearch of prey, as other Swallows ; and are 

 often feen perched on the low branches of trees which are defti- 

 tute of leaves. 



28. 



ESCULENT 



SW. 



Hirundo efculenta, Lin. Syfi. i. p. 343. 2.— >OJb. Voy. vol.ii. p. 330. 

 L'Hirondelle de Rivage de la Cochinchine, Brif. orn. ii. p. 510. N° 14. 



pi. 46. f. z. A. 

 La Salangane, Buf. cif. vi. p. 682. 



JiifL'fido finenfis Nido eduli Bontii, Rail Syn. p. 72. N° 6, 

 Chinefe Sw'S&iW, whofe neft is edible, WilUorn. p. 215. 



Ascription. HP H I S is faid to be lefs than the Wren, and only two inches 

 and a quarter in length. The bill black : irides yellow : the 

 upper parts of the body brown ; the under whitilh : the tail 

 forked, and each feather of it tipped with white : the legs brown. 



We are indebted to the pencil of M. Poivre for the drawing of 

 the bird, from which the above defcription was taken by Brijfon ; 

 and whofe figure he has copied in the Ornithology. Notwith- 

 ftanding which, we are dubious, that however accurate the figure 

 may be, the fize is defcribed by much too fmall, as Mr. Mar/den * 

 fays that the bird "appears to be the Common Martini' and we 

 are much inclined to think that it is at leaft of that fize, from the 

 eggs which accompany the neft now in the_ Britijh Mufeum, 



* StzJIiftorj of Sumatra, p. 141. 



•which; 



