80 BULLETITf 50, UlSTITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



sius, Wirb. Eur., 1840, 196.— Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, ii, 1843, 213.— 

 1854, pi. 57; Dier. Nederl. Vog., 1861, pi. 6, fig. 4.— Sundevall, Sv. Fogl., 

 KJ.ERBOLLING, Danm. Fugle, 1852, pi. 14, fig. 4.— Schlegel, Vog. Nederl., 

 1856, pi. 17, fig. 5.— Jerdon, Birds India, i, 1862, 157. — Degland and Gerbe, 

 Orn. Eur., i, 1867, 587.— Heuglin, Orn. N. O.-Afr., i, 1869, 150; iv, App., 

 1873, p. Iv.— Godman, Azores, 1870, 341.— Fritsch, Vog. Eur., 1870, pi. 2, 

 fig. 4. — FiNscH and Hartlaub, Vog. Ostafr., 1870, 134. — Salvadori, Faun. 

 Ital., Ucc, 1871, 51.— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Africa, 1871, 45; Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mas., X, 1885, 127.— Harting, Handb. Brit. Birds, 1872, 35.— Newton, ed. 

 Yarrell's Hist. Brit. Birds, ii, 1880, 340.— Giglioli, Elench. Ucc. Ital., 1881, 

 64.— 0.\tes, Birds Brit. Burma, i, 1883, 302, part.— Seebohm, Hist. Brit. 

 Birds, ii, 1883, 171, pi. 17 (eggs).— Sharpe and Layard, Birds South Afr., 

 1884, 362. 



Cecropis rustica Lesson, Compl. Buffon, viii, 1837, 498. 



Chelidon rustica Stejiseger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1882, 31. 



Hirundo domestica Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso- Asiat. , i, 1826, 528, part. 



Chelidon procne Forster, Synop. Cat. Brit. Birds, etc., 1817, 17, 55. 



Cecropis pagorum Brehm (C. L.), Vog. Deutschl., 1831, 138; Naumannia, 1855, 

 271. 



Cecropis stabulorum Brekm (C. L.) Naumannia, 1855, 271. 



Hirundo cahirica (not of Lichtenstein) Hartlaub, Orn. W. Afr., 1857, 26. — 

 Loche, Expl. Sci. Alger., Ois., ii, 1867, 67. 



Hirundo boissoneauti (not of Temminck) Lindermayer, Vog. Griechenl., 1860, 

 119. 



HIRUNDO ERYTHROGASTRA Boddaert. 



AMERICAN BARN SWALLOW. 



Similar to II. rustica, but smaller, more intensely colored on under 

 parts, and without black band across chest. 



Adult male. — Forehead (broadlj^) chestnut; rest of upper parts glossy 

 dark steel blue or violaceous steel blue; wings and tail dusk3\ faintl}^ 

 glossed with greenish, the middle wing-coverts and tertials broadly 

 margined with glossy steel blue, the greater coverts and tertials more 

 or less strongly glossed with the same; inner web of rectrices (except 

 middle pair) with a conspicuous white spot (sometimes tinged with 

 vinaceous-cinnamon or vinaceous-buff); malar region, chin, throat, and 

 chest chestnut or deep cinnamon-rufous, the chest margined laterall}^ 

 by an extension of the glossy dark steel blue from sides of the neck, 

 these two lateral patches sometimes connected, narrowly, and thus 

 forming a nearly complete collar; rest of under parts pale cinnamon- 

 rufous, or intermediate between cinnamon-rufous and vinaceous- 

 cinnamon — occasionally much paler, rarel}^ nearl}" white; bill black; 

 iris brown; legs and feet dusky horn color or blackish; length (skins), 

 153-185 (166.8); wing, 118-124 (118.2); tail, 77-105 (89.1); exposed 

 culmen, 7-9 (7.9); width of bill at frontal antiffi, 6-7 (6.5); tarsus, 

 10.5-11.5 (10.5); middle toe, 11.5-13 (12)." 



Adidt female. — Similar to the adult male and often not distinguish- 

 able, but usually a little smaller and under parts a little paler; length 



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