Class II. SAND MARTIN SWALLOW. 



549 



HIrundo riparia. H, cinerea, 



gula abdomineque albis. 



Lath. Ind. orn. 575. id. Syn. 



iv. 568. 

 L'Hirondelle de rivage. Be!on 



av. 379. 

 Hirundo riparia, seu Drepa- 



nis. Gesner av. 565. 

 Dardanelli. Aldr. av. ii. 312. 

 Sand Martin, or Shore Bird. 



TFil. orn. 213. 

 Raii Syn. av. 71. 

 L'Hirondelle de rivage. JBris- 



son av. ii. 506. Hisi. d'ois. 



vi. 632. PI. Enl. 54:3. f. 2. 



Cat. Carol, app. 37. 

 Rondone riparia. Zinan. 49. 

 Hirundo riparia. Gm. Lin. 



1019. 

 Strand-swala, Back swala. 



Faun. Suec. sp. 273. 

 Danis, Dig-v. Jord-svale, Soil- 



baake. Norveg. Sand Rasn^ 



ne. Br. 29 1. 

 Ufer-Schwalbe (Shore Swal- 

 low). Frisch, i. 18. 

 Gestetten-schwalbe, Kram. 



3S1. 

 Br. Zool. 97. plate O. f. 1. 



Arct. Zool. ii. 129. 



3, Sand. 



X HIS is the lest of the genus that frequents 

 Great Britain. The head and whole upper 

 part of the body are mouse colored ; the throat 

 white, encircled with a mouse colored ring ; the 

 belly white ; the feet smooth and black. 



It builds in holes in sand pits, and in the 

 banks of rivers, penetrating some feet deep into 

 the bank, boring through the soil in a wonderful 

 manner with its feet, claws, and bill. It makes 

 its nest of hay, straw, &c. and lines it with fea- 

 thers : it lays five or six white eggs. It is the 

 earliest of the swallow tribe in bringing out its 

 young, and arrives in Eiigland about the same 

 time as the Chimney Swallow. 



Descrip- 



TION. 



