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definite. As Oberholser states in his description of a supposed 

 ■western race just cited, psanimochrou^ enters the United States along 

 the southwestern boundary, there being specimens in the U. S. 

 National Museum as follows: Texas, near Laredo; Arizona, San 

 Bernardino Ranch, Santa Cruz River west of the Patagonia Moun- 

 tains, Adonde, Fort Verde, and Fort Whipple near Prescott; Cali- 

 fornia, Jacumba and San Diego. 



Van Rossem ^^ at one time considered that the characters assigned to 

 psammochroU'S were due to fading in specimens long in museum collec- 

 tions, but after further work he informs me that he has found that this 

 conclusion was wrong. In my own comparisons I have had available 

 birds of equivalent condition as regards date of collection, and as the 

 differences are apparent in these I must conclude that j^sammochrous 

 is valid. 



HIRUNDO RUSTIC A ERYTHROGASTER Boddaert^: Bam Swallow 



Tlie barn swallow was seen as follows : Common near Reelfoot Lake 

 at the end of April, seen October 8 and 16; Samburg, May 6, several ; 

 Waynesboro, May 10, four; Shady Valley, June 1 to 11. seen daily, 

 and a pair nesting in a barn at the post office. 



PROGNE SUBIS SUBIS (Linnaeus): Purple Martin 



Seen as follows: Hickory Withe, April 9: Ellendale, April 16; 

 Eads, April 23; Tiptonville, May 1; Union City, May 2; Samburg 

 and Hornbeak, May 6; near Beech Creek, 12 miles northwest of 

 Waynesboro, May 13 ; Crossville, May 26 ; Shady Valley, June 4, one. 



Family CORVIDAE 



CYANOCITTA CRISTATA CRISTATA (Linnaeus): Northern Blue Jay 



As a winter visitor this form, marked by larger size, lighter, bluer 

 dorsal coloration, and more extensive white on the tertials and sec- 

 ondaries, should be found throughout the State. There are only two 

 specimens in the present collection that are placed under this race and 

 those with some reservations. A male taken near Phillippy on 

 October T (with the wing 129.3) is small but has the color and wing 

 marking of tlie northern form. While intermediate it is believed to 

 be near cristata. A male from the Clinch Mountains 6 miles south- 

 west of Bean Station taken on September 30 measures 131.7. It is of 

 the proper shade of blue above but has the white margins on the wing 

 feathers as in fonncoJa. It also appears intermediate. While these 

 are listed here as cristata, it will be noted that neither is entirely 



2" Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 6, Apr. 30, 1931, p. 268. 



»" See Wetmore, Proc. V. S. Nat. Mus., vol. S4, 19;s7. pp. 413-414. 



