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CHARACTERS OF HIRUNDO ERYTHROGASTRA 



nirundo amerieana, Wils. " AO. i. 1812, 34, pi. 38, f. 1,2".— DelTOt Clint. Ann. Lyc.N. T. 

 i. 1824, 159.— Bp. Journ. Pliila. Acail. iv. 1825, 256.— Sw. <C Rich. FBA. ii. 1SJ1,329.— 

 Peab. Kep. Orn. Mass. 1830, 344.— Lcmbeye, Av. Cuba, 1850, 44, pi. 7, f. 2 —Hoy, Pr. 

 Phila. Acad. 1853, 301.— Kennic. Tr. Illinois Agrie. Soc. 1. 1855, 581.— B/j/.Pr. Boat. Soc. 

 vi. 1857, 115 (Nova Scotia).— Gieb. Vog. 1860, 73, f. 135. 



Cecropis amerieana, Boie, Isis, 1844,374. 



Hlrundo eyanopyrrha, V. "N. D. d'H. N. xiv. 1817, 510 " ; Ency. Meth. ii. 1823, 528, n. 41. 



?Hirundo fuinaria, ? Licht. "Preis-Verz. Mex. Vog. 1830,2"; J. f. O. 1863, .58 (quotes 

 " ameriana Wil.s."). 



Chimney Swallow, Penn. AZ. ii. 178.'), 429, n. 330 (in part ; escl. refs. to Eur. sp.). 



Hiroiidelle si ventre roiix dc Cayenne, Buff. "Hist. Nat. Ois. vl. 607"; PE. 704, f. l. 

 (Bafcis of //. en/throgastcr.) 



Bufouis-bellieil Swallow, Lath. Syn. ii. pt. ii. 1783, 5C6 (based on Buff. PE. 704, f. 1) (Cay- 

 enne and New York.) 



Hirondelle rousse, ie Jfoine, Ois. Canad. 1861, 142. 



Barn Swallow, o/aM(/ior«. 



Hab. — America. The North American bird inhabits in summer more par- 

 ticularly the United States and adjoining portions of British America, strag- 

 gling far north, however, to Alaska and Greenland ; in winter. Middle Amer- 

 ica, including the West Indies. Breeds at large in its United States range, 

 in Mexico, and doubtless elsewhere. 



Oh. sp. — $ 9 Chahjhea, infra rufa, pectore semiiorquato ; fronte 

 rufd; Cauda forjicatd, albo-notatd. 



i , adult : Deep lustrous steel- 

 blue ; the forehead and entire 

 under parts rufous, generally 

 deepest on the forehead and 

 throat ; an imperfect steel-blue 

 collar. Wiugs and tail blackish, 

 with steel-blue or somewhat 

 greenish gloss ; the lateral pair 

 of tail-feathers much length- 

 eued and filiform at the end, 

 all but the central pair with a 

 white spot. Length, 6-7 inches, 

 very variable, according to the 

 development of the tail ; extent, 

 12^131; wing, 4^-5; tail, 3 to 

 5 inches, the fork 2-3 inches 

 deep. 



2 , adult : Quite like the <? , 

 but the colors rather less intense 

 and lustrous. 



Young : Lacking iu great 

 measure the elongation and 

 Fig. 46.— Details of structure of Barn Swallow, attenuation of the lateral tail- 

 natural size. feathers, the fork being an inch 

 or lees in depth. Similar to the adults, but much duller, and with rather a 

 greenish than steel-blue lustre— at an early age quite brown, with scarcely 

 any lustre, and the rump and upper tail-coverts skirted with rusty. Front- 

 let obscurely marked, or reduced to a mere tawny line, and under parts, 

 especially behind the dark collar, very pale, even brownish-white. 



