WHITE-COLLARED SWIFT. 



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Le grand Martinet a ventre blanc. Buff. Hist, Nat. Ois. 6. 660. 

 Greatest Martin, or Swift. Edwards, I. 27, 

 White-bellied Swift. Lath, Gen, Syn, 4. 586. 36. 



The White-bellied Swift is in length eight inches 

 and a half : beak slightly bent, and. black: irides 

 brown : neck with a grey brown collar, variegated 

 with dusky : upper parts of the body grey brown, 

 with a reddish green gloss in certain positions : 

 throat, breast, and belly, white: sides dusky, varie- 

 gated with white ; vent and under tail-coverts like 

 the back : legs flesh-colour. 



Found amongst the mountains of Spain : also 

 on the borders of the Rhone, at Malta, Aleppo, 

 and other mountainous countries of those climates: 

 it is not very common ; lives on the same food 

 as the common Swift : it flies high ; and breeds 

 in holes of the rocks, about the latter end of April, 

 in the mountains of Savoy and Tyrol, after re- 

 maining amongst the ponds and marshes for fifteen 

 or twenty days from its arrival in those parts. 



WHITE-COLLARED SWIFT. 

 (C}'pselus cayanensis.) 



Cy. molaceo-nigricans, capife nigro, gutture Jascia oculari bifida 



Jemoribusque albis, 

 Violet-black Swift, with a black head, the throat, bifi^ fascia 



near the eyes, and thighs white. 

 Hirundo cayanensis. Lath, Ind. Orn, 2. 583. 34. — Gmel, Syst, 

 Nat, 1. 1024. 



Le Martinet a collier blanc. Buff. Hist, Nat, Ois. 6. 671.— Bm^ 



PI, Enl. 725. f, 2, 

 White-collared Swift. Lath, Gen, Syn, 4. 587. 37* 



