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D escription.
Hirondelle acutipenne de Cayenne, Buf. cif. vi. p. 701 .— PI. eut. 726. f. 1.
J^E N G T H above four inches and a half. Above blueilh
brown : rump grey '• throat and fore part of the neck rufous
Place.
grey.
Inhabits Cayenne and Guiana, but feldom near inhabited places ;
nor is it known whether it would build in chimnies or not, as
there are none in thofe places.
33. L’Hirondelle noire acutipenne de la Martinique, Buf. oif. vi. p.702.—
SHARs w AILED n .'n l .W . f . l .
Description. Q l Z E of a Wren : length three indies eight lines. Above
° black: throat brownifh grey : the reft of the under parts dull
Place.
brown : bill and legs brown : the ends of the tail feathers
pointed, as in the laft fpecies. Some have the under parts of the
body of a reddifh brown.
Inhabits Martinico j and is one of the fmalleft of this fpecies.
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4- SWIFT.
Hirundo apus, Lin• Syjl. i. p. 344. N° 6.— S£op,ann. i. p. 166. N° 251.—
Kram. el, p. 380. N° 3. — Brun. p. 74. N° 292. — Raii Syn. p. 72,
A. 4.—Frifcb. t. 17.—Muller, N° 290»—'GeorgiReife, p. 175.
Le Martinet, Brif. orn. ii. p. 512. N° 15.
——— — — noir, Buf. oif. vi. p. 643.
Le Grand Martinet, PI. enl. 542. f. 1.
Black Martin, or .Swift, Raii Syn. p. 72. A. 4*— Will. orn. p. 214. t. 39*“ “
Albin. ii. pi. 55..—Br. Zool. i. N° 171.—ArSl. Zocrl. t
Br. Muf. Lev, Muf.
■ Description. r p H I S is a large fpecies, being near eight inches long: its
weight only one ounce. The bill is black: irides hazel:
2 colour
colour of the whole plumage footy black, except the chin, which
is white : the wings are very long, meafuring, from, tip to tip, no
left than eighteen inches: the feet very fliort; and the toes all
placed forwards : the tail is forked; the outer feather exceeding
the middle ones by an inch, or more : legs and claws
blackilh.
The female is rather lefs; the plumage inclined more to Female.
brown s and the white on the throat lefs diftinft.
This is a fummer inhabitant of thefe kingdoms. It comes the Placb a n d
lateft, and departs the fooneft, of any of the tribe; not always Manner».
flaying till the middle of Auguft; and often not arriving before
the beginning of May.
Thefe love to build in elevated places, the more fo the better;
fuch as fteeples, lofty towers, and fuch-like ; making in the cavities
of thefe their neft. Are fuppofed to return to. the fame places
year after year. Only hatch once in a year. For the molt part
lay five white eggs, rather of a longilh form. Their food, flies,
moths, and other winged infefts : and as they are apt to catch at
every thing on the wing, many have caught them by a bait of a
Cockchafer tied to a thread, which they have fwallowed as freely
a filh their’s. In the Ifle of Zant, the boys are faid to get on an
elevated place, and merely with a hook baited with a feather,
have caught five or fix dozen of thefe birds in a day *. They
chiefly fly morning and evening, lying in their holes during the
heat of the day; probably not being able to endure heat any
mote than cold.
Befides our ifland, they are known to inhabit the whole of the
* Hiß. des oif, ,
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