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brown^ and tail uniformly brown gloffed with blue; the plumage 

 beneath white^ and the legs covered with a whitidi down. A fup- 

 pofed variety that inhabits North America^ has the quill and tail 

 feathers tipped with white. 



The Houfe Martin, like the reft of its tribe, fubfifts on infe6ls;, 

 which it chiefly takes on the wing. 



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