Clafs II. MARTI N. 243 



gloffed with a rich purplifh blue. The breaft and 

 belly white, tinged with red : the tail black ; the 

 two middle feathers plain : the others marked tranf- 

 verfely near their ends with a white fpot. 



Its food is the fame with the others of its kind, 

 viz. infects ; for the taking of which in their fwifteft 

 flight, nature hath admirably contrived their fe- 

 veral parts; their mouths are very wide to take 

 in flies, &c. in their quickeft motion ; their wino-s 

 are long, and adapted for diftant and continual 

 flight ; and their tails are forked, to enable them to 

 turn the readier in purfuit of their prey. This fpe- 

 cies builds in chimneys, and makes its neft of clay, 

 leaving the top quite open. It breeds earlier than any 

 other fpecies ; and this year the young brood were 

 obferved to quit the neft on the eleventh of July. 



II. The MARTIN. 



Le Martinet. Belon a<v. 380. La petite Hirondelle, ou le Mar- 



Hirundo fylveftris. Gefner av. tinet a cul blanc. BriJJbn av. 



564. ii. 490. 



Jldr. av. ii. 311. Hirundo urbica. Lin.fyft. 344. 



Martin, Martlet, or Martinet. Hus-Svvala. Faun. Suec. fp. zji. 



Wil. orn. 213. „ SpeyerL Kram. 380. 



Raii/yn. av. 71. Danis Bye v. Tagfldceg-Svale, 



Rondone minore, e Graflblo, Langelandis, Rive. Br. 290. 



Zinan. 48. Br. Zool. 96. plate Q^f. 2. 



TH E Martin is inferior in fize to the former, 

 and its tail much lefs fjrked. The head and Defer, 

 upper part of the bedy, except the rump, is black 

 glofled with blue : the breaft, belly and rump are 

 white : the feet are covered with a fhort white down. 

 This is the fecond of the fwallow kind that appears 

 in our country. It builds under the eaves of houfes, 



with 



