. 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 .. . ith steel blue,are brightly glossed with green, and the feathers on the rumpdull, without reflections. Remarks.—If this species be identical with the Americanbird bearing the same name, as it appears to be, although seve-ral ornithologists have considered it different, its distributionover the globe is very extensive. Some author having statedt
. 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 .. . ith steel blue,are brightly glossed with green, and the feathers on the rumpdull, without reflections. Remarks.—If this species be identical with the Americanbird bearing the same name, as it appears to be, although seve-ral ornithologists have considered it different, its distributionover the globe is very extensive. Some author having statedthat Swallows remain all winter about the Carron Founderies,being fostered by the constant heat kept up, I have thought itnot absolutely foolish to inquire if he had any grounds for hisassertion. Having in the spring of 1840 delivered a course ofZoological Lectures in Falkirk, I visited these celebrated works,but found no Swallows in their vicinity. No person in the dis-trict, in so far as I know, ever heard of such a phenomenon ;and no Swallows were to be seen there up to the 16th of April,when I retreated—with flying colours. 573 HIRUNDO URBICA. THE WHITE-RUMPEDSWALLO\y. HOUSE SWALLOW. WINDOW SWALLOW. MARTIN. HOUSE Fio. 267. Hirundo urbica. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. .347. Hirundo urbica. Lath. Ind. Orn. IL House Martin. Mont. Orn. Diet. Hirondelle de fen^tre. Hirundo urbica. Temm. Man. dOrn. I. 428. Martin. Hirundo urbica. Selb. Illustr. L 123. Hirundo urbica. House Martin. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 158. Head, hind-neck, and fore part of the hack glossy steel-blue ;rump and lower parts white ; tail deeply forked; tarsi and toesfeathered. Male.—The Martin, or Window Swallow, or, as it maywith propriety be named, the White-ruinped Swallow, issomewhat smaller than the Red-fronted species, or ChimneySwallow, from which it is readily distinguished when on wing,by the white colour of part of its back, but which it closelyresembles in its habits. The body
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