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paler and more orange (very nearly the tint of red-lead), the 

 rump and ground-color of back olive-grayish, and wing-bands 

 pure white. Adult female with yellow of lower parts and olive 

 of upper parts much paler. Length (of male, before skinning) 

 8.25, wing 3.85-3.95, tail 3.30-3.50, exposed culmen .70-.75, 

 depth of bill at base .38-.42. Hah. Tres Marias Islands, western 

 Mexico. p. flammea Kidqw. Tres Marias Tanager.* 



&*. Wing less than 3.00. [Adult males rich scarlet-vermilion, the lores, scapu- 

 lars, wings, and tail deep black, the wings with two broad bands of 

 pure white across tips of middle and greater coverts. Adult females 

 bright olive-green above, yellow beneath ; wings and tail grayish 

 dusky, with olive edgings, the former with two white bands, as in 

 males.) 

 &. "With narrower wing-bands ; adult male with the red a lighter, more 

 scarlet, tint ; adult females with the yellow and olive less deep ; 

 length (skins) about 5.10-5.50, wing 2.65-2.85, tail 2.30-2.55. Hab. 

 Southern Mexico (north to Jalapa, Valley of Mexico, etc.), Guate- 

 mala, and Salvador. 



P. leucoptera Trudeau. White-winged Tanager.2 

 c^. "VYith broader wing-bands ; adult males with the red of a darker tint 

 (almost carmine on upper parts) ; adult females with the yellow and 

 olive more intense ; length (skins) about 4.90-5.20, wing 2.65-2.85 

 tail 2.35-2.55. Hab. Costa Rica and Yeragua. 



P. leucoptera latifasciata Ridgw. Broad-banded Tanager.' 



Family HIRUNDINID2E.— The Swallows. (Page 322.) 



Genera. 



rt^ Nostrils opening directly upward, and with very little membrane borderino- the 

 inner edge. 

 b^. Wing 5.00, or more ; tail decidedly forked (for much more than length of 

 tarsus) ; adult males (of l^orth American and some tropical species) 

 entirely glossy blue-black. (Largest of the Swallows.) 



Progne. (Page 458.) 



b'^. Wing decidedl}^ less than 5.00 ; tail nearly even (forked for much less than 



length of tarsus) ; adults (sexes alike in color) not black beneath. 



c'. Upper parts parti-colored, the crown and back blue-black, forehead 



whitish or rusty brown, rump cinnamon or buffj- ; throat and sides 



of head chestnut, rest of lower parts whitish mediallj^ grayish 



brown laterally ; edge of outer quill normal. 



Petrochelidon. (Page 459.) 



1 New species; type, No. 50824, cf ad., Tres Marias; Col. A. J. Grayson. (Four specimens— two adults of 

 each sex.) 



2 Pyranga leucoptera Trudeau, Jour. Ac. Sci. Phil. viii. 1839, 160. 

 ^ New subspecies. 



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