302 SWALLOW. 



25.— FULVOUS SWALLOW. 



L'Hirondelle fauve, Levail. Afr. v. 156. pi. 246. 1. — male. 



LENGTH five inches and half. Bill, legs, and irides, brown ; 

 plumage above rufous brown, tinged with grey in some lights; throat 

 and breast light fulvous, or Isabella colour ; belly, thighs, and vent, 

 pale grey ; tail scarcely an inch and a half long, rounded at the end, 

 rufous brown ; the two middle and the outer feather plain, the others 

 marked with an oval spot of white on the inner webs ; wings long, 

 and reach beyond the end of the tail. The female chiefly differs in 

 being smaller. 



Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope ; generally seen near habita- 

 tions ; and makes the nest of mud, under the eaves of the houses, in 

 form of a cup; and lays five or six white eggs, dotted with brown. 

 M. Levaillant thinks this bird to be most like the Hir. brune a 

 Collier, PI. enlum. 723. — our Brown-collared, but is not certain if 

 the same, as the figure is a very bad one. M. Temminck rather 

 thinks it to be a Crag Swallow in immature plumage. 



26 —BLUE SWALLOW. 



LENGTH five inches and a quarter. Bill blue; plumage in 

 general above fine deep blue; chin white; breast and belly rufous 

 red ; vent white ; quills and tail black. 



Inhabits New-Holland. — Mr. Lambert. 



