PLATE CLVIIL 



HIRUNDO RUSTICA. 

 SWALLOW, 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill fmall, weak, curved, and awl fliaped, with the hafe deprefled ; 

 gape larger than the head : tongue (hon, broad, cleft : wings long : 

 tail in general forked, 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Blueifli black ; beneath white, front and chin chefnut : tail fea- 

 thers, except the two middle onps, with a white fpot. 



HiRUNDO Rustica; nigro-coerulefcens fubtus albida, fronte 



gulaque caftaneis, reftricibus lateralibus macula 

 albanotatis. Lath, Gen. Syji. 2. 572. 1. 



HiRUNDo Rustica: redlricibus, exceptis duabus intermediis, 



macula alba notatis. Linn. Fn Suec, 570.—? 

 Gmeh Syfl. Nat. 1. p. 1015.— Scop. Ann. 1. N^ 

 m^.—Brun. N"* 289. Kram. EL p. S80. 1.— 

 Georgl.p. \75.—Frifch.t. lH.^KIem. Av.p. 82, 

 Z.—Schceff. EL Orn. t. 40. 



HiRUNDO 



