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same. This is the case, also, with those found beyond the Jenisei, 

 and in all the north east parts of Siberia. The Votiaks, a Finnish 

 Nation, pay great respect to the Swallow, and among other super- 

 stitious opinions maintain, that " He who dares to kill a Swallow, 

 " Lapwing, Pigeon, or Wagtail, exposes himself to all sorts of mis- 

 " fortunes in his flock ;" they even build nests for the Swallows.* 



Among General Hardwicke's collection of Indian drawings is a 

 pair — the male marked as usual, the female with a few pale mottlings 

 below the nape; the belly pale ash-colour, which is white in the 

 male. Found at Cawnpore in January. 



A. — Hirundo alba, Bris. ii. 489. A. Ind. Orn.u. 573. 



Hirundo prorsus Candida, White Swallow, Will. 155. Id. Engl. 213. Gen. St/n. iv. 563. 



This Variety is wholly white, and the circumstance not uncom- 

 mon. I have seen many, and had others in my own collection ; but 

 in one I observed the chin to be reddish, the rest plain white ; and 

 M. Beseke mentions one in his possession, ash-colour, with here and 

 there a sooty tinge. Among some Chinese drawings, in possession 

 of the late Dr. Fothergill, one, called Hirundo vulgaris, was wholly 

 white ; the bill red, wings long, the tail even, except the two middle 

 feathers, which are longer than the rest. I suspect this not to be 

 truly a Swallow. 



B. — L'Hirondelle a Ventre rougeatre, Voy. d'Jzara, iv. No. 302. 303 ? 



Length six inches and a half, breadth twelve and a half; size of 

 the European Species. Forehead, chin, and throat, much the same 

 as in that bird, but the belly is pale rufous instead of white ; upper 

 parts of the body, and wings blue black ; quills and tail black, and 

 forked ; on the four outer feathers of the latter a white spot on the 



* Russia, Vol. i. 138. 



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