﻿58S SWALLOW. 



other a little way beneath the eye : reft of the plumage black, 

 with a glofs of violet ; but the greater coverts, neareft the body, 

 are brown, edged with white : on each fide of the lower belly, 

 and over the thighs, white : the quills and tail are black ; the 

 laft forked : legs black : all the four toes placed before, as in our 

 Swift, and covered with feathers to the claws-. 



This bird makes its neft in the houfes at Cayenne. It is of a 

 large fize, in fhape of a truncated cone ; five inches one way, by 

 three the other, and nine inches in length. It is compofed of 

 the down of dogs-bane, well wove together j the cavity divided 

 obliquely about the middle, lengthways, by a partition, which 

 fpreads itfelf over that part of the neft where the eggs lie, which 

 is pretty near the bafe : a fmall parcel of the fame foft down, 

 forming a kind of plug, is placed over the top, ferving to keep 

 the young brood from the impreffion of the air ; from which we 

 may fuppofe them to be very tender. 



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