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BLACK SWALLOW. 

 (Hirundo nigra.) 



Hi. tota nigra, alls longissimis, cauda Jbrficata, 



Swallow entirely of a black colour; wings very long; tail forked. 



Hirundo nigra. Lath. Ind. Orn, 2. 57/. 17' — Gmel, Syst, Nat, 



1. 1025,— Vieil. Ois, de I'Amer, Sept. 1. 64. 

 Hirundo apos dominicensis. Briss. 2. 514. l6. t. 46. J'. 3. 

 Le petit Martinet noire. Buf. Hist. Nat. Ois. 6. 668, 

 L'Hirondelle noire. Vieil, Ois, deVAmer. Sept. 1. 64. 

 Black Swallow. Lath, Gen, Syn. 4, 572, I/. 



The Black Swallow inhabits St. Domingo and 

 Cayenne : it is nearly six inches in length, and 

 is entirely black: its tail is greatly forked, and 

 the wings exceed it by one inch and a half : it 

 builds its nest in a hole in the ground, which it 

 forms by its own labour ; it is nearly six inches in 

 length, with a very small entrance. 



WHITE-RUMPED SWALLOW. 



(Hirundo leucorhoa.) 



Hi. nigricans, pennis interiorihus alarum apice, uropygioque albis. 

 Dusky Swallow, with the tips of the inner wing-feathers and 



the rump white. 

 Le Martinet I croupion blanc. Le Vail. Ois. d'Afri, 5, 146, pi, 



244, f. 1. male. 



This bird is very abundant at the Cape of Good 

 Hope, and builds its nest against houses, in the 



