Class II. CHIMNEY SWALLOW. 



543 



GENUS XXIX. SWALLOW. 



Bill short, weak. 

 Mouth very wide. 

 Legs short, weak. 



Hirundo rustica. H. nigra* 

 caerulescens subtus albida, 

 fronle gulaque castaneis, 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. Gesner av. 

 548. 



Aldr. av. ii. 2Q4. 



Rondone. Zinan. 47- 



L'Hirondelle de Cheminee. 

 Brisson av. ii. 486. Hist. 



cFois. vi. 591. PL Enl. 543. 1. Chimney. 



Hirundo rustica. Gm. Lin. 



1015. 

 Ladu-Swala. Faun. Suec. sp. 



270. 

 Forstue-Svale, Mark-Svale. 



Brunnich, 289. 

 Haus-Schwalbe. Frisch,i. }7. 

 Hauss Schwalbe. Kram. 380. 

 Laustaza. Scopoli, No. 24g. 

 Bail Syn. av. 71- 

 House or Chimney Swallow. 



Wil. orn. 212. 

 Br. Zool. 96, Arct. Z00L ii. 



127. 



X HIS species appears in Great Britain nearly 

 twenty days before the martin, or any other of 

 the swallow tribe. They leave us the latter 

 end of September ; and for a few days previous 

 to their departure, assemble in vast flocks on 

 house tops, churches, and even trees, from 



