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fpeckled with red : has two broods in a year j the firft in June,
the other in Augujl. The male has a little warbling weak note,
but not unpleafing.
This fpecies is fuppofed, with fome propriety, to take up its
winter-quarters in Senegal*, and parts adjacent, and feems to
poffefs in turn the whole of the old continent, beiijg known from
Norway to the Cape of Good Hope, on the one hand, and from
Kamtfchatka to India and Japan on the other. They are alfo
found in all parts of North America, mfgrating north and fouth,
as with us. In Sweden and in North America they are called Barn
Swallows f . Kalm fays, that in America they build in houfes,
and under the outfides of the roofs; alfo on the mountains, in
fuch parts of them as projeft beyond the bottom, as well as
under the corners of perpendicular rocks. The aculeated ones
building in chimneys, as ours in England.
Much may be faid concerning their migrations, whether any
of them pafs the winter under the water, &c. but this would
take up too much both of our time and paper; and what is
worfe, leave us Hill in the dark in refpeft to the fubjedt. Who-
* Talking of Swallows, Mr. Adanfots fays, they are never feen but at this
te time of the year (after October) at Senegal, along with the Quails, Wagtails,
t£ Kites, and fome other birds of palfage, which go thither every year, when the
“ ‘ cold drives them away from the temperate countries of Europe. Another fatt,
“ not lefs worthy of remark, is, that the Swallows do not build their nefts in
“ Senegal as in Europe -, they lie every night two and two, or Angle, on the fea-
** ihore, which they feem to like better.-than inland places.” Voy. to Senegal,
p. 121. And again, p. 163, mentions, that the Swallows took up their refi-
dehce at night in his hut, which was pretty dark within, perched on the rafters ;
however it is doubted by fome, whether they be our Swallows.
f Ladu-fwala, Faun. Suec. p. 98. See alfo, Kahn Voy. ii. p* 270.
ever
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ever may be inclined to perufe what has been faid on this matter,
may eonfult Phil. Eranf. N° 36. vol. li. p. 439.— vol. liii'.
p. 101.— Buf. oif. vol. vi. p. 552.-ft? Je<i.—-Br. Zool. vol, i. Art.
Swallow.
L’Hirondelle blanche, Brif. om. ii. p. 489. A, •
Br. Mu/, Lev. Mu/. V ar.*A.
4- WHITE SW.
r p H I S variety is wholly white. I have likewife feen a fpe-
cimeo with the chin reddilh, otherwife of a pure white * .
D escription*
2.
OTAHEITE SW.
P l . in FRONTISPIECE.
T E N G T H five inches. Bill black : irides brown : colour
of the body brown black, with a Ihining blueilh glofs:
from the chin to the upper part of the bread it is of a fulvous
purple j the reft of the parts beneath are of a footy brown; the
vent paleft: tail a little forked; above black; beneath the
fame, but paler-, the length two inches and a quarter: legs
black.
Description.
Inhabits the mountainous parts of Otaheite. One of thefe is Place.
* Among fome Cbinefe drawings belonging to the late Dr. Fother gill, I ob*
ferved one, called Hirundo vulgaris, wholly white : the bill red, and fhort: the
wings long : the tail feathers even, except the two outer ones, which were an
inch and a half longer than the reft: the legs red. I likewife met with one in
fome other Chtne/e drawings,' in all refpefls the fame, except the two long tail
feathers, which were placed in the middle of the tail, and not on the outftde.
Which of the two was right, or whether the bird itfelf is a Swallow, I am not
able to determine.