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SWALLOW. 



European continent ; and have alfo been noticed at the Cape of 

 Good Hope *, and Carolina in North America f. Hence, mod: 

 likely, a general inhabitant of both the old and new con- 

 tinents. 



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CHINESE 



SWIFT. 



Le Grand Martinet de la Chine, Son. Voy, Ind. vol.ii, p. 19c). 



Description. HP HIS is eleven inches and a half in length. The bill and 

 irides blueifh grey ; the bill is fhort, and broad at the bafe t 

 wings long : the legs fhort : the tail forked, and as long as 

 the wings : the top of the head is pale rufous : the throat white : 

 the hind part of the neck, back, wings, and tail, brown : over the 

 eye is a ftreak of brown, paffing beyond it, and blending with the 

 general colour of the neck : the bread and belly are of a very 

 pale rufous grey : the eye furrounded with white feathers : legs 

 blue grey J. 

 JPiACE. Inhabits China. 



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 4- WHITE-BEL- 

 LIED SWIFT. 



Hirundo Melba, Lin. Syft. i. p. 345. N° it. 



alpina, Scop. ann. i. p. 166. N° 25:2. 



La Grande Hirondelle d'Efpagne, Brif. orn. ii. p. 504. N ? IB. 

 Le Grand Martinet a ventre blanc, Buf. oif. vi. p. 660. 

 Greater! Martin, or Swift, Edtv. i. pi. 27. 



Description. T E N G T H eight inches and a half: weight two ounces 

 five drams» Bill half an inch, fomewhat bent* and black : 



* Kolben. f Lavofon. 



X It is not faid whether all the toes are placed as in the laft fpecies, though 



we fliould fuppofe it to be fo from the name. 



irides 



