ESCULENT SWALLOW. 



HI 



gined with yellowish grey) of a shining black: 

 under parts ash-colour. Native of Peru and 

 Otaheite. 



ESCULENT SWALLOW. 

 (Hirundo fuciphaga.) 



Hi. supra nigricans, nitens, subtus cinerea, cauda tota immacu- 

 lata, 



Swallow above shining dusky, beneath ash-coloured, with the 



tail entirely without spots. 

 Hirundo fuciphaga. Act, Holm, 1812. ml. 33. jp. 151. 

 Esculent Swallow. Lath, Syn, Sup. II. 257. !• 

 Small grey Swallow, with a dirty white belly. Staunt, Emh. 



Chin. V. l,p, 288. v. 2, p, 5. 

 Layong-Layong. Marsden, Hist, Sumat,p, 141 ^ 



The Esculent Swallow is the size of the Sand 

 Martin : it is four inches and a half in length, 

 and eleven in expanse : its beak is black : the 

 upper parts of the plumage shining dusky black: 

 under parts pale ash-colour : wings, when closed, 

 one inch longer than the tail, which is slightly 

 forked, and has all the feathers of an uniform 

 black colour, and rounded at the end ; the outer 

 feathers are one inch and three quarters, and the 

 inner only one inch and a quarter, in length. 



The bird described by Brisson, Linn^us, BufFon, 

 and others, as the Esculent Swallow, does not ap- 

 pear to be known to the naturalists of the present 

 day, it having been described by the former from 



