Class II. CHIMNEY SWALLOW, 



543 



GENUS XXIX. SWALLOW. 



Bill short, weak. 

 Mouth very wide. 

 Legs short, weak. 



Hirundo rustlca. H. nigro- 

 coerulescens subtus albida, 

 fronle gulaquecastaneis, rec- 

 tricibus lateralibus macula 

 alba notatis. Lath. Ind. 

 orn. 572. id. Syn. iv. 36l. 

 id. Sup. i. 192. 



La petite Hirondelle. Belon 

 av. 378. 



Hirundo domestica. Gesnerav. 

 548. 



Aldr. av. ii. 2Q4. 



llondone. Zinan. 47- 



L'Hirondelle de Cheminee. 

 Brisson av. ii. 486. HisL 



d'ois. vi. 591. PL Enl. 543. 1. Chimney. 



/•I- 



Hirundo rustica. Gm. Lin, 



1015. 

 Ladu-Swala. Faun. Suec. sp^ 



270. 

 Forstue-Svale, Mark-Svale. 



Brunnich, 289, 

 Haus-Schwalbe. Frisch, i. 17. 

 Hauss Schwalbe. Kram. 380. 

 Laustaza. Scopoli, No. 24g. 

 Raii Syn. av. 7i- l 



House or Chimney Swallow. 



TFil. orn. 212. 

 Br. Zool. 96; Arci. Zool. ii. 



127. 



XHIS species appears in Great Britain nearly 

 twenty days before the martin, or any other of 

 the swallow tribe. They leave us the latter 

 end oi September ; and for a few days previous 

 to their departure, assemble in vast flocks on 

 house tops, churches, and even trees, from 



