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COMMON SWALLOW. 

 (Hirundo rustica.) 



Hi. nigro-ccBrulescens subtus albida,Jronte gulaqtie castaneis^ rec- 

 tricibus duabus intermediis exceptis, macula alba notatis. 



Black-blue Swallow, beneath whitish, with the forehead and 

 throat chesnut, all but the two middle tail-feathers marked 

 with an oval white spot. 



Hirundo rustica. Lin, Syst, Nat, I. 343. 1. — Lin, Faun, Suec. 

 270,—Gmel, Syst, Nat, 1. \Ql5,r—Lath, Ind, Orw. 2. 572. 1. 

 — Turt, Brit. Faun, 1. 48. 332. 



Hirundo domestica. Briss, 2. 485. 1. ^ 



Hirondelle de cheminee. Buff, Hist, Nat, Ois, 6. 5QI. f. 25./, I, 

 —Buff. PI, Enl. 543./. 1. 



Chimney, or Common Swallow. Pett» Brit, Zool. 1. I6&. t. 58. 

 ■ — Pen. Arct, Zool. 2. 330. — Albin. Birds. 45. — Bemck, Brit, 

 Birds. 1. — Mont, Brit, Birds, 2. — Mont. Sup. — Lath. Gen, Syn, 

 4. 561. — Lath, Syn. Sup, ig^.—Levoin. Brit, Birds, 3. FL 123- 



jS. Tota nivea. 



Entirely of a snowy white colour. 



Hirundo alba. Briss. 2. 489. 



White Swallow. Lath, Gen. Syn, 4. 563. 



The Common or Chimney Swallow is rather 

 more than six inches in length : its beak is black : 

 irides hazel : forehead and chin chesnut red : top 

 of the head and all the upper parts of the body 

 black, glossed with purplish blue : quills in some 

 positions of a greenish brown, in others of a blue 

 black : upper part of the breast black ; lower part 

 and belly white : tail greatly forked, with all but 

 the two middle feathers marked with a white oval 

 spot on their inner webs, near the tips : legs short. 



