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beak is black, and the legs dusky-brown : the tarsi 

 are rather long : the tail is short, composed of ten 

 strong elastic feathers, and is very slightly forked : 

 the wings exceed it about two inches and a half. 



GENUS XLIL— HIRUNDO Auctorum. SWALLOW. 



Rostrum mandibuld inferiore 



apice recta. 

 Cauda plerisque furcata. 

 Pedes simplices; digitis tri- 



bus anticis, uno postico. 



BeaJc with the lonsoer mandible 

 straight at the tip. 



Tail generally forked. 



Legs simple ; three toes be- 

 fore, one behind. 



A. Cauda subfurcata. A. Tail slightly forked. 



Sp. 1. Hi. torquata. Steph. v. x. 124. — Southern Africa. 



Sp. 2. Hi. Javanica. Steph. v. x. 1 01 . Temm. PL Col. 33. f. 2.— 



Java. 

 Sp. 3. Hi. Borbonica. Steph. v. x. 1 16. — Isle of France. 

 Sp. 4. Hi. Francica. Steph. v. x. 115. — Isle of France. 

 Sp. 5. Hi. Dominicensis. Steph. v. x. 123. — West Indies. 

 Sp. 6. Hi. Americana. Gmel. — Hi. platensis. Steph. v. x. 126". — 



America. 

 Sp. 7 . Hi. leucoptera. Steph. v.x. 120. pi. 13. — South America. 

 Sp. 8. Hi. jugularis. Pr. Max. Temm. PI. Col. 161.y. 2. 

 Hi. rufo-Jiiscus, gula rufd; pectore lateribusque cinereo-Jlavis ; 



abdominis medio Jlavescente ; remtgibus rectricibusque nigri*> 



cantibus. 

 Red-brown Swallow with the throat rufous ; the breast and sides 



ashy- yellow; the middle of the abdomen yellowish ; the quills 



and tail-feathers dusky. 



Inhabits Brazil. Length four inches and a half: 

 both sexes have the throat red : the breast and the 

 sides ashy-yellow : the middle of the belly whitish- 



