col FULVOUS, OR cuff swallow. 79 
paring hjs i!f,’ i Sboa ! d u pt have even thought of com- 
%ored it with that of Vieillot, who probably 
swallow. Thp 1 0rked ^ al ' merely because it was a 
f'warkable an/u terS of the d ‘ iff swallow are so 
th . at > "'hen those ? Mner of biding is so peculiar, 
r ‘Ustah en f or ‘ * accurately delineated, it cannot be 
The cliff - other snecies. 
!’ lil ‘s black "and^L 8 c™ ai , ld a half inches long. The 
rr n - A narrow n f fV dusk >' ; the irid ^ a ?e dark 
a °h eye ; the tW„ f daC v | ule extends over the bill to 
part of the crown \ , ls .P a ? rufous, autl the remaining 
ml cheeks are | . tk violaceons; the chin, throat, 
band 0“ the hindt* r ™^„ n0U != axteildil ‘? ” a — o 
is 
the 
? nd cheeks, are ,u'i v . ,u,iu:eo,IS 1 the chin, throat, 
! J ! U| d on the hindh fe / rU ?“° US) exte "ding in a narrow 
black > glossed wifi '°“ d 1 ! the "PI’® 1, P art of the body is 
j a ' n, P. and sonn'oi fi' lo a< j , '°" s ; the inferior part of the 
the hreast i s s th o tad-coverts, arc pale ferruginous ; 
t«maining und / a P al « rufous ash colour, and the 
.fag'nous tl? r ‘ s are « hitish, tinged with brownish 
1 (re .m.l fell i.l . i • i .< 
/ruinous. T| i— r“‘ c wmiusii, ringed with brownish 
CSife blackisb ,’ fhe small 
v,n g-coverts are » i , wnh violaceous; the inferior 
somewhat shorts rt br °"; n : the tail is nearly entire, 
* x terior tail-feather ^““i t,ps of the wings; the 
the ■ »«r is slightly edged with whitish on 
»™;iv above » i" 11 !? and tail-feathers have their 
.. ^his das crief 6 1 white beneath. 
^erence exists h!tw . trom 0U1 : finest male; no 
ouug-, even 
•'It 
tkc inner vane'.Ti* r**e“ v V cu geu 
s W ts black lL ’ 1 ,""'g andtafl-fea 
,. This descrint ' 6 a,ld white beneath, 
difference exists bet IS from our fines 
d “ ni >g early am, can srar^l T^! a “ d tho - yo ""g’ 01 
P a ‘:«itK, excent ’W h ‘ Cel ? be distinguished from the 
WeT re he white instead of 
?ed 
'■duals have all the if 1 • by Viei!lot > that some in, 
' v 'th the same sur * ae ® of the body ting, 
P*' 'daddy very old males! that ° f the thr0at J tkcse a 
bird! WWle thrLt iStil, " UisbeS the migrations of 
b "ma„ rac " ifranidfv a’ ° r white variety of the 
10,11 its eastern horded i fading over tliis continent, 
th « Missis !p,d S cliff the „ rem otest plains beyond 
'Atremc w ! !:. n • swallow advances from the 
‘emtory fj tb ™ amillall y invading a new 
7 a * ther to the eas tward, and induces us to 
