\ 



152 NEW-HOLLAND SWALLOW. 



This singular little bird is scarcely three inches 

 and three quarters in length : it is black above : 

 the beak and legs are brown : the throat is brown- 

 ish grey : the under parts of the body generally 

 dull brown ; sometimes reddish brown : and the 

 ends of the tail-feathers are pointed as in H. pe- 

 lasgia. 



NEW-HOLLAND SWALLOW. 



(Hirundo pacifica.) 



Hi. obscura, gula et uropygio cctruleo'albidisf rectricihus apice 

 acutis. 



Obscure Swallow, with the throat and rump of a blueish white, 



the tail-feathers pointed at their tips. 

 Hirundo pacifica. Lath, Ind. Orn, Sup. II. Iviii. 2, 

 New-Holland Swallow. Lath. Syn, Sup, II. 259, 4. 



This bird has a very great affinity to the follow- 

 ing, but it wants the needle-shaped processes at 

 the tips of the tail-feathers : it is of the same size: 

 the prevailing colour is dusky brown, but without 

 any tinge of green on the wings and tail : the 

 throat and rump are blueish white. Inhabits 

 New Holland. 



