OTAHEITE SWALLOW. 



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on the inner webs : the tail is even : the throat, 

 the front of the neck, and the upper part of the 

 breast, are light brown ; and the rest of the under 

 parts of the body are greyish white : its eyes, feet^ 

 and beak, are brown. 



It is found at the Cape of Hope, builds its nest 

 against houses, and lays five yellowish white eggs, 

 slightly spotted with brown. 



OTAHEITE SWALLOW. 

 (Hirundo tahitica.) 



Hi.JliscO'nigricans, corpore supra cceruleo-7iit€nte,Jronte coUoque 

 suhUis purpureo-fiilvis, cauda suhforjicata nigra. 



Dusky-brown Swallow, with the body above of a shining blue, 

 forehead and neck beneath brownish purple, and black slightly 

 forked tail. 



Hirundo tahitica. GmeL Syst. Nat. l. 1016. — Lath, Ind. Orn. 

 2. 573. 2. 



Otaheite Swallow. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 563. p/. in front. 2. pt. 1. 



Beak black : irides brown : colour of the body 

 brown black, with a shining blueish gloss : from 

 the chin to the upper part of the breast it is of a 

 fulvous purple : the rest of the parts beneath are 

 of a sooty brown ; the vent palest : tail a little 

 forked; above black; beneath the same, but 

 paler : the length two inches and a quarter : legs 

 black : length five inches.'' Described as above 

 by Dr. Latham, and figured in the frontispiece to 

 the third volume of his General Synopsis. It in- 

 habits the mountainous parts of Otaheite. 



