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SAND MARTIN. 

 (Hirundo riparia.) 



Hi. murina, gula ahdomineque albis. 



Mouse- coloured Swallow, with the throat and abdomen white. 

 Hirundo riparia. Lin. Syst, Nat. 1. 344. 4. — Lin* Faun, Suec. 



273. — GmeL Syst, Nat, 1. lOl^.—Lath, Ind. Orn. 2. 575, 10. 



— Briss, Orn, 2. 506. 12. — Wils, Amer, Orn, 5. 46. 

 L'Hirondelle de rivage. Buff, Hist, Nat. Ois. 6. 632,'^Buff, 



PI, Enl, 543, f, 2. 

 Bank Swallow, or Sand Martin. Wils, Amer, Orn, 5. 46. pi. 



38. f 4. 



Sand Martin. Pen. Brit, Zool, 1. 170. — Pen, Arct. Zool. 2. 

 332. — Alhin. Birds. 2. 56. b. — Lath, Gen, Syn, 4. 5^8. 10. — 

 Betvick, Brit, Birds. I, 260. — Mont, Brit, Birds, 1. — Letvin, 

 Brit, Birds, 2. 125. 



The Sand or Bank Martin is near five inches 

 in length : its beak is dusky : irides hazel : super- 

 cilia whitish : head, neck, breast, and back, mouse- 

 coloured brown; wings the same, with their in- 

 terior feathers singularly notched at the tip : 

 throat, fore-part of the neck, belly, and vent, 

 white: tail brown; the outer feather slightly mar- 

 gined with white : legs dusky, slightly feathered 

 behind. 



This species is common to Europe and Ame- 

 rica, arriving in this country first of the Swallow 

 tribe : it is the scarcest and most local with us^ 

 but is extremely abundant in America : its nest 

 is placed on the high sand-bank of a river, quarry, 

 or gravel-pit, at a few feet from the surface, and 



