76 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



1890, 96 (record of mortality in Connecticut in June, 1888). — Macfaklane, 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiv, 1891, 443 (Anderson R., Mackenzie, breeding).— 



DwiGHT, Auk, X, 1893, 12 (Prince Edwards I., breeding). — Nehrling, Our 



Native Birds, etc., i, 1893, 358. 

 Cllivicola^ riparia Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 463. 

 Rliparia] riparia Jordan, Man. Vertebr. E. U. S., 4th ed., 1884, 72. 

 Riparia riparia American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xix, July, 



1902, 325.— Brewster, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xli, 1902, 170 (San Jose del 



Cabo, Lower California, Sept. ) . 

 Riparia europsea Forster, Synopt. Cat. Brit. Birds, 1817, 17. 

 Clivicola europea Forster, Synopt. Cat. Brit. Birds, 1817, 55. 

 Hirundo cvnerea (not of Latham) Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xiv, 1817, 



526. 

 Clivicola riparia cinerea Stejneger, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 29, 1885, 268, in 



text. 

 Cotyle fluviatilis Brehm, Vog. Deutsohl., 1831, 142. 

 Cotyle microrhynchos Brehm, V^og. Deutschl., 1831, 143. 

 Hirlundo] riparia americana (not Hirundo annericana Maximilian, Journ. fiir 



Orn., 1858, 101 (upper Missouri R.). 

 Clivicola riparia maximiliani Stejneger, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 29, 1885, 378, 



footnote ( to replace Hirundo cinerea Vieillot, preoccupied ) . 



Genus HIRUNDO Linnaeus. 



Hirundo Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 191. (Type, as fixed by Schaeffer, a 



H. rustica Linnaeus. ) 

 Chelidon Forster, Synop. Cat. Brit. Birds, 1817, 17. (Type, C. procne Forster, = 



Hirundo rustica Linnseus. ) 

 Cecropis Boie, Isis, 1826, 971. (Type, Hirundo capensis Gmelin, = H. cucullata 



Boddaert. ) 

 "Acropis Reid[er] and Hahn, 1835." (Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 69.) 

 lAllia Boie, Isis, 1844, 174, footnote; Journ. fiir Orn., vi, Sept., 1858, 364. (Type, 



Hirundo erythropygia Sykes.) 

 Hypurolepis Gould, Birds of Asia, i, pt. xx, 1868, pi. 32. (Type, H. domicola 



Gould, = Hirundo javanica Sparrman. ) 

 Hypurolepds (emendation) Sundevall, Met. Nat. Av. Disp. Tent, 1872, 52. 

 Herse (not of Oken, 1815) Gray, List Gen. Birds, 1841, 11. (Type, Hirundo 



iaitensls Lesson, = H. fahitiea Gmelin. ) 



Small to rather large Hiruudinidse with nostrils opening laterally 

 and overhung by a distinct membraneous operculum, the frontal 

 feathers not extending forward as far as anterior end of nostrils; tar- 

 sus entirely unfeathered except at extreme upper portion, hind claw 

 shorter than the digit; tail two-thirds as long as wing, or l^onger, and 

 forked for more than one-third its length (or else ^ inner webs of rec- 

 trices with a white spot), the upper parts with chestnut or rufous on 

 either forehead or rump (or both), the under parts either partly chest- 



«Elem. Orn., 1774, pi. 40; see Reichenow, Journ. fiir Orn., 1889, 187; Allen, Bull. 

 Am. Mus. N. H., iii, 1891, 346; Cones, Auk, xv, 1898, 271. 



t> In H. javanica Sparrman, which except only as to the short and shghtly forked 

 tail, is in every other respect a typical Hirundo. 



