. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . eeding of geese from barnacle shells, remainfor ages matters of popular belief, after the learned, with whomperhaps they originated, have given them up. The Swallows differ considerably from each other in the sizeof the bill, the form of the tail, the clothing or nakedness ofthe feet, and other circumstances, insomuch that several sec-tions mig
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . eeding of geese from barnacle shells, remainfor ages matters of popular belief, after the learned, with whomperhaps they originated, have given them up. The Swallows differ considerably from each other in the sizeof the bill, the form of the tail, the clothing or nakedness ofthe feet, and other circumstances, insomuch that several sec-tions might be instituted in the genus ; but as only three spe-cies occur in Britain, it is unnecessary to separate them in thismanner. As all our species are referred to the single genusIlirundo, so they all ought to receive a single generic name,Swalloiv. One of them has been named the Chimney Swallow,and another the Window Swallow or JNIartin ; but these namesare not very correct, for the former rarely builds in chimneys,and both nestle in windows, as well as in other places. Itherefore prefer naming the one the Ked-fronted, aud theother the White-rumped. 558 HIRUNDO RUSTICA. THE RED-FRONTED ORCHIMNEY SWALLOW. SWALLOW. COMMON SWALLOW. Fig. 266 Hirundo rustica. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 343. Hirundo rustica. Lath. Ind. Orn. IL 572. Chimney or Common Swallow. Mont. Orn. Diet. Hirondelle de Chemin6e. Hirundo rustica. Temm. Man. dOrn. L 427- Chimney Swallow. Hirundo rustica. Selb. Illustr. 1. 120. Hirundo rustica. Chimney Swallow. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 157. Upper parts glossy steel-blue ; forehead and throat brownish-red ; a broad baud on the fore-neck dusky; tail very deeplyforked, each feather, excepting the two middle, icith a white spoton the inner ueb ; breast and abdomen reddish-white. Male.—This beautiful, most lively, and familiarly knownbird, which, with the other swallows, we gladly hail as theharbinger of summer, is of a slender form, having the bodysmall and some
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