﻿SWALLOW. 



little ; for the top of the head, wings, and tail, are blackifh 

 brown ; the three outer tail feathers tipped with dirty white, and 

 bordered with greenifh brown : the reft of the upper parts are of 

 this laft colour : the under parts grey, longitudinally dafhed with 

 brown. 



3°> La petite Hirondelle noire a Croupion gris, Buf. oif vi. p. 696. 



Hirondelle de Bourbon, PL enl. 544. f. z. 



GREY-KUMPED 



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Description. J" ENGTH four inches and a quarter: upper parts of the 



body blackifh : rump and under parts whitifh, or grey. 



Place and Inhabits the IJle of France ; but is not a numerous fpecies. 



Manners, Found chiefly in the neighbourhood of frefh waters : flies fwifc : 



feldom feen to perch ; fuppofed to reft in the woods at night, as 



it is feen about the fkirts of them towards evening. It is gene~ 



rally very lean, and not good food. 



One brought from India by M. Sonnerat, which feemed to be- 

 long to this fpecies, had the under parts ftreaked like the Wheat 

 Swallow ; and the colour of the upper parts, as well as fize, the 

 fame, only the wings exceeded the tail in length by more than 

 an inch and a half. 



RUFOUS- L'Hirondelle a Croupion roux & Queue carree, Buf. oif. vi. p. 698. 



RUMPED SW. 

 Description. T E N G T H fix inches and a half. The upper parts of the 



plumage blackifh brown, with a glofs of both greenifli and 

 blue : the rump and vent rufous, mixed with a little white : 

 quills whitifh within : under parts of the body dirty white : tail 

 even. 



j Found 



