318 SWALLOW. 



some lights ; between the bill and eye a dusky spot ; beneath white ; 

 wings and tail dull black, the last forked ; the wings exceed the tail 

 by half an inch ; legs brown. 



The female is blue black above like the male, but the colour 

 scarcely at all glossy. The young are dusky above, and the quills 

 and tail feathers, as well as those of the rump, have the ends dirty 

 white. 



Inhabits Hudson's Bay, and there called Shashy wine pashu. — 

 Dr. Forster observes, that it is common about Severn River, and builds 

 under the windows, and on the face of steep banks of the river ; and 

 that it disappears in autumn ; it differs from our Martin, in not 

 having a white rump ; in the adult state a mixture only of white 

 being seen on that part in the young bird, and such an one I have 

 formerly observed in the collection of Sir Joseph Banks. 



This Species is also met with at Newfoundland, and New York, 

 in the summer. Mr. Wilson says, it arrives in Pennsylvania 

 a few days days later than the Barn Swallow, and will sometimes 

 build in the hollow of a tree; the nest made of fine loose dry grass, 

 lined with downy feathers, completely concealing the eggs, which 

 are four or five in number, and pure white : said to have two broods 

 in the season. 



53— RUFOUS-RUMPED SWALLOW. 



Hirundo Americana, Ind. Orn.u. 581. Gm. Lin. i. 1017. 

 L'Hirondelle a croupion rouge et queue quarree, Buf. vi. 698. 

 Rufous-rumped Swallow, Gen. Syn. iv. 582. Share's Zool. x. 126. 



LENGTH six inches and a half. The upper parts of the plumage 

 blackish brown, with a gloss of greenish and blue; rump and vent 

 rufous, mixed with a little white ; quills whitish within ; under parts 

 of the body dirty white ; tail even. — Found on the borders of the 

 River Plata, in South America, in May. 



