80 HIRUNDINIDJE. 



are dull black : the throat, belly, and vent are pure 

 white : the wings are rather shorter than the outer 

 tail-feathers : beak very slender. 



Sp. 13. Hi. nigra. Steph. v. x. 98. — Cayenne. 



Sp. 14. Hi. tapera. Steph. v. x. 122.— Brazil, &c. 



Sp. 15. Hi. chalybea. Steph. x. 96. — Cayenne. 



Sp. 16. Hi. fasciata. Steph. v. x. 121. — Cayenne. 



Sp. 17. Hi. violacea. Gmel. i. 1 026. — Hirundo purpurea. S/cph. 



v. x. 108. — America. 

 Sp. 18. Hi. rufa. Steph. v. x. 88. — America. 

 Sp. 19. Hi. rustica. Steph. v. x. 84. pi. 9. — Britain and other 



parts of the old world. 

 Sp. 20. Hi. daurica. Steph. v. x. 95. — Siberia. 

 Sp. 21. Hi. riparia. Steph. v. x. 104. ;;/. 11. — Britain, — and 



North America ? 

 Sp. 22. Hi. Indica. Steph. v. x. 127. pL 14.— East Indies. 

 Sp. 23. Hi. Panayana. Steph. v. x. 95 — Isle of Panay. 

 Sp. 24. Hi. ambrosiaca. Steph v. x. 100. — Africa? 

 Sp. 25. Hi. Senegalensis. Steph. v. x. 93. — Senegal. 

 Sp. 26. Hi. Capensis. Steph. v. x. 92. pi. 10. — Southern Africa. 

 Sp. 27. Hi. rufifrons„ Steph. v. x. 91. — Southern Africa. 

 Sp. 28. Hi. gularis. Steph. v. x. 59. — Southern Africa. 

 Sp. 29- Hi. palustris. Steph. v. x. 101. — Southern Africa. 

 Sp. 30. Hi. cristata. Steph. v. x. 94. — Africa. 

 Sp. 31. Hi. fuciphaga. Steph. v. x. 1 1 1. — East Indies. 

 Sp. 32. Hi. esculenta. Osbeck. Linn. Trans. (Horsfield.) x. xiii. 



p. 142. 



Ni. nigricans sitbtus albida, rectricibus apice albis. 

 Black Swallow beneath whitish, with the tips of the tail-feathers 

 white. 



Inhabits Java. Length six inches. Dr. Hors- 

 field says that the specimens which he brought from 

 Java differ from Latham's description in being uni- 

 formly of a blackish colour, without a white extremity 

 to the rectrices. 



