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hides brown : the upper parts of the body grey brown ; wings 

 and tail deepeft, with a glofs of red and green in fome lights : 

 throat, breaft, and belly, white : on the neck a collar of grey 

 brown, mixed with blackifh : fides dufky and white mixed : 

 lower part of the belly and under tail coverts the fame as the 

 back: legs flefh-colour, and covered with feathers on the fore 

 part and infide : all the toes placed forward, as in our Swift. 



This bird inhabits the mountainous parts of Spain ; building p UCE ANB 

 in the holes of rocks. Found alfo on the borders of the Rhone-, in Manners. 

 Savoy, ifle of Malta, alps of Switzerland, and rock of Gibraltar \ 

 It differs in the wings being longer in proportion, and having 

 only ten feathers in the tail f. 



This comes into Savoy the beginning of April, and frequents 

 the ponds and marihes for fifteen or twenty days ; after which it 

 retires to the mountainous parts to breed. Flies higher than our 

 Swift, and feeds on the fame food. Its flefh is accounted a de- 

 licate morfel. This fpecies is not numerous. Scopoli fays, it 

 builds on the fummit of the mountains of Tyrol. 



Le Martinet a Collier blanc, Buf. vif. vi. p. 671. 37- 

 de C *y™*' Pl - <*'■ 7 2 *- f * *• IaREd" C SW L : 



CIZE of the Martin; length five inches and a quarter, or Description. 



more. Bill fix or feven lines ; colour black : the head is 

 black : chin and' throat white, pafiing from the laft in a narrow 

 collar round the neck : between the bill and eye is a ftreak of 

 white, which forks off into two ; one palling a little above and the 



# At Akpfo.—Ste Hijl. Aleppo, p. 70. f Hift. des olf. 



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