SWALLOW. 309 



37.— WIRE-TAILED SWALLOW.— Pl. cxiii. 



SIZE of our Chimney Species. Bill black, base of the under 

 mandible pale ; top of the head to the eyes, nape, and beginning 

 of the neck behind, rufous; from the gape a bluish black streak 

 passes beneath the eye, and growing broader, unites with the lower 

 part of the neck behind, which, as also the back and rump, are of 

 the same colour; all the under parts are white; wings and tail black; 

 the feathers of the latter nearly even at the end, but the shaft of the 

 exterior one on each side is continued for three times the length of 

 the others, and perfectly filiform, at least so slightly webbed as not 

 to be perceivable ; on all but the two middle feathers a white spot, 

 as in our Chimney Swallow ; legs black. 



Inhabits India. — From the drawings of Sir J. Anstruther. Mr. 

 Pennant also mentions it in his View of Hindoostan,% and that he 

 received a specimen from Bengal, in which the wire-like elongation 

 from the tail was at least five inches and a half. 



38— DUN-RTJMPED SWALLOW. 



LENGTH five inches. Bill black ; on the forehead, just at the 

 base, a rufous spot ; plumage on the upper parts to the middle of 

 the back sleel blue; lower part of the rump dun or cream-colour; 

 chin and throat dusky white ; from thence to the vent cream-colour; 

 wings and tail brown black ; the latter even at the end ; the wings 

 long, and reach somewhat beyond it; legs brown. 



Inhabits New South Wales. — In the collection of Lord Stanley. 



* Vol. i. p. 268. 



