in the collection of Sir J . Banks, in which fpeeimen the purple
advances far on the breaft, and is fo reprefented in our figure
of it.
+- MARTIN.
D e s c r i p t i o n .
Place and
Manners.
Hirundo urbica, Lin. Sy/. i. p. 344. N° 3.— Scop. ann. i. p. 165. N° 250.—
Kram. el. p. 380. N° 2 — Brun. N° 290.—Muller, N° 288.—Fri/ch.
t. 17.— Georgi Reife, p. 17c.— Faun. Suec. 271.
Le petite Hirondelle, ou le Martinet à Cul blanc, Brif. orn. ii. p. 490. N° 2.
L ’Hirondelle à Cul blanc, ou de Fenêtre, Buf. oif. vi. p. 614. pl. 25. N* 2.
Le petit Martinet, Pl. enl. 542. f. 2.
Hirundo ruftica, five agreftis Plinii, Raii Syn. p. 71. A. 2.
Martin, Martlet, or Martinet, Will. orn. p. 213. t. 39.-—Albin» ii. pl. 56. a.
Br. Zool. i. N° 169.— Ar3. Zool.
Br. Mu/. Lev. Mu/
T H I S is not quite fo big as the laft fpecies : length only
five inches ^nd a half. The bill is black : the mouth yellow
within : iridès hazel : the head, upper parts of the body, wings,
and tail, are of a glofly blue black : the rump white; as are the
whole of the under parts of the body from chin to vent : the tail
is forked, but not near fb much as in the laft : legs covered with
white down quite to the claws, which are white alfo.
Thefe birds are frequent in England, and more numerous than
the Chimney Swallow. They build under the eaves and cornices'
of houfes, making a neft of mud and ftraw, like that bird, leaving
a hole for entrance, and lining the infide with feathers : often.
“ builds againft the fides of high cliffs near the fea. For
“ the time that the young keep the neft, the old one feeds
“ them, adhering by the claws to the outfide; but as foon as
“ they quit it, feeds them flying, by a motion quick, arid almoft
« imperceptible to thofe who are not ufed to obferve it *.”
It lays generally only twice in the year; the firft time five white
eggs, inclining to dufky at the large end : at the fecond hatch
the eggs are only three, or four at moft; and at the third, which
is fometimes the cafe f, no more than two or three.
This comes into England about twenty days after the Swa low,
generally departing the beginning of Oftober.
3-
V ar. A.
T N Sir J . Banks's colleftion, I obferve a Martin very like the D e s c r i p t i o n .
above, but dufky in thofe parts where that is black : the
quills, tail, and its upper coverts, tipped with white.
This came from fome part of North America. P l a c e .
L’Hirondelle d’Antigue, Son. Voy. p. 118. pl. 76.
_ - -____à gorge couleur de rouille, Fuf. ai/, vi. p. 607.
4'
P AN AY AN SW.
C I Z E of the Sand Martin. Bill black: on the forehead a
rufty yellow fpot: throat the fame, bordered by a narrow
black collar : head, neck, and back, of a velvet black: lefier
wing coverts changeable violet black: greater ones and quills
coal black : tail the fame, and forked : wings and tail of equal
lengths : all the under parts of the body, from the throat, white :
legs black.
This inhabits Antigue, in the ifland of Pan ay, one of the Phi-
lippines.
D e s c r i p t i o n *
Place«
* Br. Zool. i. p. 401. t Hiß* ciA