THE 



S WA L L O W W A RBLER. 



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Generic Character. 



Bill Tubulated (or owl-fhaped ;) ftrait ; the man- 

 dibles nearly equal. 

 Noftrils nearly oval. 



Tongue jagged, or lacerated towards the tip. 



Specific Character. 



BLACK WARBLER ? with a glofs of fteel-blue, 

 throat bread and vent crimfon, abdomen 

 white with a longitudinal band of black. 



This is a fpecies hitherto unknown to ornithologifts : 

 it is an inhabitant of New Holland, and was very 

 lately brought into this kingdom. Its general appear- 

 ance feems to be fomewhat doubtful, and it may be 

 thought perhaps to make as near an approach to the 

 genus Hirundo as to that of Motacilla. As it is impof- 

 pomble, however, in new fpecies, efpecially when the 

 fpecimens have received the imalleft injury, to afcertain 

 with perfect precifion their true place in fyftem, I have 



therefore 



