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mage on the upper parts of the body is of a purplifh black:
throat, fore part of the neck, and bread:, deep grey : belly,
thighs, and under tail coverts, white, (haded with brown; on the
fides it is alfo brownilh : quills and tail blackilh, edged with
brown i the lad: forked : legs and claws dulky.
This inhabits Hudfon’s Bay, where it is called Sajhaun-pajhu by
the natives.
2j, Hirundo tapera,- Lin. Syft. i. p. 345. N° 9.
BRASILIAN SW. L ’Hirondelle d’Amerique, Brif. orn. U* p. 502. N° 10. pl. 45. f. 3.
La Tapere, Buf. oif. vi. p. 678.
Hirundo Americana, Brafilienfibus Taper a difta, Rati Syn, p. 72. N° 5,
p. 185. N° 32.—’Will. orn. p. 214. N° 6.
Swallow, Shane's Jam. p.312. pl. 51.
D escription. T E N G T H five inches and three quarters. Bill eight lines
long, and of a black colour: upper parts of the plumage
brown : throat, fore part of the neck, bread:, fides, and thighs,
greyilh brown: belly and under tail coverts white: quills blackilh
brown : tail fcarcely at all forked colour the fame as the quills:
Place.
legs and claws brown.
Inhabits South America * ; being found at B ra jil and Cayenne \
alfo at Jamaica f . Sioane obferves, that they are only there for
fix months, as the Swallows are in Europe j frequenting the plains
and favannas of that ifland; now and then alighting on the tops
of ihrubs.
* Brijpon. f Sioane*
Hirondelle
S W A L L O W .
Hirondelle brune Sc blanche, a Ceinture brune, Buf. eif, vi. p. 680.
Hirondelle brune a Collier du Cap de Bonne Efperance, PL enl. 723. f. 1,
T ,E N G T H fix inches. Bill eight lines, and pretty ftrong:
the upper part of the body brown; the under white, except
a band of brown acrofs the bread:: the thighs are alfo brown:
and there is a fmall fpot of white between the bill and the eye :
the tail is even at the end.
Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope.
L ’Hirondelle a ventre blanc de Cayenne, Buf. eif. vi. p. 631 ._PI. enl. 546.
f. 2.
J ^ E N G T H from four inches and a quarter to five inches.
Bill from fix to eight lines ; colour black : top of the head,
neck, body, and Idler wing coverts, afh-coloured, with refledtions
of blue and green in different lights, and fome of the greater
coverts edged with white; there alfo is a great portion of white
in fome fpecimens on the fecondary quills: the greater quills and
tail are brown, with the fame gloffes of green and blue as on the
body, but deeper: all the under parts, from chin to vent, are
white : the rump is alfo white : the tail is a little forked; the
wings exceed it in length by more than a quarter of an inch : the
legs are pale.
Hirondelle a ventre tachetc de Cayenne, Buf. elf. vi. p. 682. — PI. enl 346
f. r.
T H E upper parts of this bird are dull brown, without glofs,
or any mixture of white: the uhder parts white, marked
Vo1- H- • 4 E with
z6.
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COLLARED SWD
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WHlffi-
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