SWALLOW. 303 



27— OTAHEITE SWALLOW— Pl. cxii.* 



Hirundo Tahitica, Ind. Orn. ii. 573. Gm. Lin. i. 1016. 



Otaheite Swallow, Gen. Syn. iv. 563. pl. in frontispiece. Shaw's Zool. x. 125. 



LENGTH five inches and a half. Bill black ; irides brown ; 

 plumage brown black, glossed with blue ; from chin to breast fulvous 

 purple ; the rest of the parts beneath sooty brown, paler at the vent ; 

 tail a trifle forked, length two inches and a quarter, black ; beneath 

 paler; legs black. 



Inhabits the mountainous parts of Otaheite. In some specimens 

 the purple advances far on the breast, as in the representation of it. 



28— GREY-RUMPED SWALLOW. 



Hirundo Francica, Ind. Orn. ii. 580. Gm. Lin. i. 1017. 

 Le petite Hirondelle noire a Croupion gris, Buf. vi. 696. 

 Grey-rumped Swallow, Gen. Syn. iv. 582. Shaw's Zool. x. p. 115. 



LENGTH four inches and a half. Plumage above the colour of 

 our Swift ; beneath the same, but paler, inclined to grey ; rump, 

 and under parts of the body, whitish or grey. 



Inhabits the Isle of France, but not numerous, chiefly found 

 near fresh water ; flies swift, rarely perches, supposed to rest in the 

 woods at night, being seen about the skirts of them in the evening ; 

 generally very lean, and not good food. One brought from India by 

 M. Sonnerat, had the under parts streaked like the Wheat Swallow ; 

 and the wings exceeded the tail by more than one inch and a half. 



In a drawing from India is one nearly the same, but the tail a 

 trifle longer, and the wings do not exceed it by more than half an 

 inch ; the total length five inches ; breadth twelve : in this the legs 

 are red. 



Inhabits Persia, and named Aubaubeel. 



