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Swallows fometimes vary in colour, as do alio many other birds 5 I have ( faith 

 Aldrovandtts ) often ibenHoufe Swallows all over white. If any one defires to have 

 White Swallows, let him anoint their Eggs while they (it, with oyl-olive, Aldrov. 



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The Martin, or Martinet, or Martlet. Hirundo agreftis five ruftica "Plinii. 



THis being meafuted from the tip of the Bill to the end of the Tail was fix inches 

 long : The Wings being fpread ten inches and an half broad. Its Head flat 5 

 Its Bill alfo very much depreffed and flat, as in the Houfe-Swallow 5 at its infertion into 

 the Head \ of an inch broad, but (harp at the point : From the tip to the angles of 

 the Mouth but half an inch long 5 the upper Chap fomewhat longer than the nether. 

 The Mouth is yellow withinfide : The Tongue cloven. The Circles encompafiing the 

 Pupils of the Eyes of a havel-colour. The Feet (mall, and Legs (hort. The foal 

 of the foot bare 5 in which appear the bottoms of the exteriour Toes joyned by a 

 membrane. The Claws are white: The Feet to the very Claws covered with a white 

 Down : By which note it is eafily diftinguiihable from all its fellows of the Swallow- 

 kind. 



Its Head, Neck,_Back, Tail and Wings are ofthe(ame colour with the Houfi- 

 Swallows, but fadder, and not fo gloflie: Its Rump, Bread:, and Belly milk-white. 

 Under the Chin the white is fomewhat more fullen or obfcure. Each Wing hath 

 eighteen mafter-feathers : From the tenth the fix or feven following have their tips 

 broad and indented. The tips of the * interiour quil- feathers tare white. The Tail * That is, 

 is lefs forked than in the Houfe-Sw allow. The feathers from the middle on each fide Jjjf^JJ? c 

 are longer in order, the exteriour than the interiour, almoft by an equal excefs 5 other- y ' 



wife thanin the Houfe-S wallow, the outmoft feathers of whole Tail (as we (aid before) 

 exceed the next three times as much as they do the following, &c. The length of 

 the outmoft feathers is two .inches and an half, of the middlemoft one and three 

 quarters. 



In the ftomachs of the Young of this kind we found no (tones, but many Flies and 

 Beetles. This bird builds a round Neft like the Houfe-Swallow, and alfo of like mat- 

 ter, yet not in Chimneys, but in Windows, under Eves of Houfes, &c. It differs 

 moreover, in that the Houfe-Swallows Neft is like thofe of other birds, femicircular, 

 and all open above, but its Neft is covered above, a round hole only being left open 

 in the fide, by which the old one goes in and out. * 4 V/ * • 



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The Sand-Martin, or Shore-bird. Hirundo riparia, Aldrov. 



THis bird istheleaft that we know of the Swallow-kind 3 being from the tip of 

 the Bill t6 the end of the Tail no more than five inches and a quarter long. Its 

 Bill is (mall, fharp, flat, black, as in the reft of this kind, from the point to the angles 

 of the Mouth half an inch long : Its Tongue cloven : Its Eyes great 5 its Feet dusky. 

 At the rife of the back-toe a few fmall feathers grow 3 elfe the Legs are bare as far as 

 the knees. 



Its Head, Neck, and Back are of a dark dun, or Moufe colour: Its Chin, Bread, 

 and Belly white. At the bottom of the Throat a Ring of the fame Moufe-dun en- 

 companies the Neck. The number of feathers in Wings and Tail is the fame as in 

 other Swallows. But the quil-feathers of the Wings are blacker than the feathers on 

 the back 5 from the tenth to thelaft all of equal length 3 the fix next to the tenth have 

 their tips indented. The middle feathers of the Tail are an inch and three quarters 

 long, the outmoft an inch and half. 



It builds in the holes of River-banks, lays five or fix Eggs, makes its Neft of draws, 

 bents, &c. within of feathers, on which it lays its Eggs. 



It differs from the Common Martin in having no white upon the Rump,nor its feet 

 feathered, as that hath. 



Of this kind great numbers are brought to the Markets at Vakntia mSpain to be fold 

 for the ufe of the Kitchin 3 where the Fowlers and Country people call them *Paplion * T h at is 

 di Montagna. They are frequent alfo in Holland, and no lefs in England. Mounai n But* 



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