320 SWALLOW. 



Inhabits Brazil and Cayenne, and not unfrequently as far north 

 as New York : is probably the sort which M. Bajon mentions build- 

 ing in houses, without any mixture of mud, fabricating the nest with 

 moss, dried plants, and short bits of sticks, all united with a sort 

 of gum, so as scarcely to be broken, and lining it with feathers ; this 

 is suspended from the beams and rafters, sides of walls, and eaves of 

 houses, sometimes a foot in length, and fixed by one of its sides, the 

 opening at the bottom ;* the eggs four or five in number. 



A. — Size the same. Bill black ; crown bluish black, inclining 

 to brown ; forehead buff white ; throat and cheeks under the eye 

 chocolate brown, and beneath this some few markings of black ; 

 nape pale brown, or mouse-colour ; back glossy brownish purple ; 

 belly dirty white; tail even at the end; wings and tail dusky, 

 equalling each other in length ; legs rather long, and black. 



Inhabits America, comes late to Quebec and its neighbourhood; 

 builds under the eaves of houses ; makes a nest of clay, in the 

 manner of the Martin, and chatters perpetually. It generally 

 arrives in May, and departs in September. This is most probably a 

 Variety of the Rufous-bellied, as described by BuiFon and Bajon, 

 but how far belonging to that in the PI. enlum. it is not easy to say, 

 as the figure is there represented with a forked tail. 



** ALL THE FOUR TOES PLACED FORWARDS. 



56— COMMON, SWIFT. 



Hirundo A pus, Ind. Orn. ii. 582. Lin. i. 344. Faun. suec. No. 272. Gm. Lin. i. 

 1020. Scop. i. No. 251. Brun. No. 292. Muller, No. 290. Kramer, 380. 3. 

 Frisch, t. 17. 1. Georgi, 175. Faun.arag. 90. Sepp, Vog. t. p. 37. Raii, 72. 

 A. 4. Will. 156. t. 39. Bris. ii. 512. Id. 8vo. i. 301. Klein, 83. 4. Borowsk. iii. 

 157. Gerin. iv. t. 412. 1. 



* On one side, near the bottom.— Vieillot. 



