Family Hirundinidæ.
Generic Character.
Bill entire, the sides much compressed, the culmen arched. The lower mandible recurved at the tip. Wings very long. Tail scansorial, the extremity of the shafts naked, and acute. Tarsi naked, the three anterior toes and claws nearly equal; hind toe not versatile. Nob.
Type. Chætura pelasgia. Stevens.
Specific Character.
Brown: wings and tail glossed with greenish blue; back grey-white: chin and under tail covers snowy; tail even.
Ob. Tail 3½ in. longer than the wings, the two first quills longest and equal.
For an inspection of this new and imposing species, we have to thank Mr. Ward, an Animal preserver of considerable talent. We do not find it mentioned in any Ornithological work we possess, and our library is not small: but with so many publications continually issuing from the continental press, we shall feel no surprise at discovering it has already been published.