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 The lejfer Sea Swallow, Hirundo marina minor. 



Numb. LXXXIX, XC. 



ITS Weight was two Ounces and a half; Length, from the Point of 

 the Bill to the End of the Tail, ten Inches ; Breadth, when the 

 Wings were extended, twenty four Inches; the Bill, Head, Neck, and 

 Breaft were black, excepting a (ew light cinereous Feathers about the 

 Eyes; the Back, Wings, and Tail were of an Afh-colour, the two laft 

 darker towards their Ends; the Belly and Thighs of a fordid white; the 

 Wings are longer than the Tail, two Inches; the Tail is fix Inches long 

 compofed of twelve Feathers, the middlemoft being the fhorteft, the 

 reft gradually encreafing to the outmoft (reprefenting the Tail of a 

 Swallow) from which Charadieriftick, I fuppole it took its Name, as 

 alfo that of its fwift Flight,, and continually keeping itfelf on the Wing; 

 when it perceives a fmall Fifli, it plunges itfelf into the Water, and catch- 

 ing up its Prey flies away immediately. 



The Legs and Feet are red and bare of Feathers half way above the 

 fecond Joint, the Claws black. 



The Hen is exactly fhaped like the Cock, but fomething lefs ; the 

 Bill and Top of the Head black, and a Spot of the fame Colour between 

 the Bill and the Eyes ; the reft of the Head, Throat, Breaft, and Belly, 

 white ; half the upper part of the Neck, the Back, Wings, and Tail 

 were of a dark brownifh Afh-colour; the Legs of a dirty yellow, and 

 bare of Feathers half way above the fecond Joint. 



Its Guts were half a yard long; in the Stomach when difTeded were 

 found Bones of Fifties and fome fmall Fifhes not digefted. Thefe two 

 Birds I had from my good Friend Sir Robert Abdy. 



He 



