Place.
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BLACK SW.
D e s c r i p t i o n .
Place and
Manners.
laft forked in fhape: the under parts duiky white: fome of the
wing coverts edged with white: the quills exceed the tail in
length : legs duiky.
Inhabits the Eaft Indies.
Taken from fome unpublilhed drawings of the late Mr. Edwards,
now in my pofieffion.
Le Martinet de St. Domingue, Brif. orn. ii. p. 514. N° 16. pi. 46. f. 3.
Le petit Martinet noir, Buf. oif. vi. p. 668, — Mem. fur Cmyenne, vol. ii.
p. 276.
,T H I S meafures near fix inches in length. The bill is half an
inch long : the colour of the bird wholly black : tail
forked: the wings exceed it in length by near one inch and a
half.
This fpecies inhabits St. Domingo and Cayenne: is not numerous:
is often feen to perch on dead trees; and only inhabits dry
favannas inland. It fcoops out a hole in the earth, half a foot in
length, the mouth of it very fmall, fo as juft to permit entrance :
in this cavity it conftrufts the neft, and rears the young.
Buffon mentions one of thefe, as a variety, which had on the
forehead a narrow band of white; and a fecond, which came from
Louifiana *, of the fame fize, but wholly of a dull blackilh grey t
the legs bare of feathers.
* Martinet de la Louifiane, PI, ml. 726. f. 1.
L’Hirondelle
L ’Hirondelle de St, Domingue, Brif. ora. ii. p. 493. N° 3.
Le Grand Martinet noir a ventre blanc, Buf. oif. vi. p. 669.
L ’Hirpndelle d’Amerique, PI. epl. 545. f. i.
Lev. Muf.
I Z E of our Chimney Swallow: length feven inches. Bill
eight lines long, and of a brown colour: the whole bird is
black, with the glofs of polilhed fteel, except the belly and under
tail coverts, which are white : the tail is very little forked : legs
and claws brown.
Inhabits St. Domingo, and other of the Weft India illands, in
May, June, and July.
It is faid to imitate a Lark in its fong.
La Grande Hirondelle de Pérou, Brif. ora. ii. p. 498. N° 6.
Le Martinet noir & blanc, à Ceinture grife, Buf. oif. vi. p. 670.
g I L L black: head, throat, aQd neck, grey : back, rump,
fcapulars, and upper tail coverts, black : under parts of the
body pure white, except- a band of alh-colour acrofs the breaft :
the upper wing coverts, quills, and tail, pale grey, with yellowilh
grey margins : claws black.
Inhabits Peru.
L ’Hirondelle du Pérou, Brif. era. ii. p. 498. N° 6.
La petite Hirondelle noire à Ventre cendré, Buf. oif. vi. p. 673.
H *H I S is fmaller than the Chimney Swalloyv; and the bill
very Ihort : the eyes are black, furrounded with a brown
circle : the upper parts of the plumage of a gloffy black : all beneath
18.
ST. DOMINGO
SW.
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PERUVIAN SW.
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ASH-BELLIED
SW.
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