ST. DOMINGO SWALLOW. 



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The Peruvian Swallow has the head^ throat, 

 and neck, grey: breast with an ash-coloured fascia: 

 upper wing-coverts, quills, and tail, pale grey, 

 edged with yellowish grey: beak, back, rump, 

 scapulars, upper tail-coverts, and claws, black : 

 under parts of the body pure white. Native of 

 Peru. 



ST. DOMINGO SWALLOW. 



(Hirundo dominicensis.) 



Hi, nigrO'Chali/heaj ahdomine albo, rectricibusnigricantibtis. 

 Steel-black Swallow, with a white abdomen^ and dusky tail- 

 feathers. 



Hirundo dominicensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 1025. — Briss. 2. 

 493. 3. — Lath, Ind, Orn, 2. 577. 18. — VieiL Ois. del'Amer, 

 Sept, 1. 59. 



Le grand Martinet noire a ventre blanc. Buf. Hist. Nat, Ois, 

 6. 669. 



Hirondelle d'Amerique. Buff, Fl. Enl. 5A5.f, \, 

 L'Hirondelle ^ ventre blanc. Vieil, Ois. de VAmer, Sept, I. 59. 



pi. 28. male. 29. female. 

 St. Domingo Swallow. Lath. Ge?i. Syn. 4. 573. 18. 



Inhabits the southern parts of North America, 

 and also many of the West-India islands, particu- 

 larly St. Domingo : it is the size of Hirundo 

 rustica, and measures seven inches in length : its 

 beak is black : its legs and claws are brown : the 

 whole bird, with the exception of the belly, and 

 under tail-coverts, which are white, is of a beautiful 

 shining steel blue : its tail is very slightly forked 5 

 and, with the wings, is dusky: female with the 



