PLATE CLXXV. 



HIRUNDO URBICA. 



HOUSE MARTIN. 

 Passerks. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill fmall, weak, curved, fubulate, and deprelTed at the bafe : gape 

 larger than the head : tongue iliort, broad cleft : wings long : tail 

 generally forked, 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 

 Blue-black, beneath white : tuil without fpots. 



HiRUNDO Urbica : nigro-coerulefcens fubtus alba, retricibus im-* 

 maculatis. Lath. Lid, Orn. 573, 



HiRUNDO Urbica : retricibus immaculatis, dorfo nigro-coeru- 

 lefcente, tota fwbtus alba. Linn. Fn. Succ. ^71- 

 -^Linn. Si/ft. L p. 344. 3,—GmeL Syjl. L 

 p. lOir. 



Hirundo minor f. ruftica. Briff. ai). 2. p. 490. n. 2. 

 Hirundo ruftica f, agreftis Plinii. Raj. av. p. 71. w. 2, — TVill. Orn. 

 p. 155. t. 39. 



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