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Total length, 5|- inches. 
ijcngth of hill ft’oni gape, lines. 
„ of bill from front, 3 lines. 
„ of wiTigs, inches. 
„ of tail, 2;} inches. 
„ of tarsus, 4 lines. 
,, of middle toe and claw, 7 lines. 
The egg is white, thickly spotted with dark purple ; the spots 
most numerous at the thick end ; length, 7,^ lines. 
These Swallows are common in the island ; they generaily 
perch upon dead twigs of trees, from winch they look out 
for their prey, and darting upon it, and returning to their 
station, something in the same way as the common European 
Flycatcher does ; the Swallow, however, takes rather a 
longer flight than the Flycatcher. They breed in fissures 
of rocks, and the nest is composed of mnd, and lined with 
feathers. 
Family Coraciadse. 
Sub-fam. Coracianse, 
Gen. Eurystomus. 
Eurj^stomus Pacificus (Gray's Gen.)- 
,, Au.stralis (Gould). 
„ Orientidis (Vig, and Horsf.). 
Above, dull sea-green from the nape to the tail ; this colour on 
the nape gradually passes into a greenish hrown, which is the colour 
of the crown and sides of the head. 
Below, sea-green with blue reflections ; throat rich blue, each 
feather having a stripe of vivid ultramarine blue running down the 
shaft. 
Wings, covers and scapularies .sea-green with blue reflections ; 
spurious wing.s black edged with blue primaries above black 
edged with blue on the outer webs j on the first primary, on the 
inner web, at about a third of the feather from its base, is a broad 
band of light changeable blue or green, according to^the light in 
which it is held j this band is continued on the six next primaries on 
'both the inner and outer webs, and on the eighth is a single spot of 
the same colour on the outer web alone ; the inner webs of the 
under side of the primaries are for the most part broadly margined 
with rich deep blue. 
Tail above, black, the outer feathers exteriorly edged with blue 
at the basal part j below, black, with the inner webs broadly mar- 
gined with deep rich blue. 
Bill, red. 
Total length, 12 inches. 
