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in a single hole in a cutbank at an elevation of about 7,500 feet above 

 Tecpam. At Antigua I saw them flying over the town at sunset, 

 when at a little distance they resembled bats. Comparison of the 

 skins secured with others from elsewhere in Guatemala indicates 

 some variation in color of the dorsum, which, however, appears indi- 

 vidual, some being decidedly browner than others. 



STELGIDOPTERYX RUFICOLLIS FULVIPENNIS (Sclatcr) 



Cotyle fulvipennis Sclater, Pioc. Zool. Soc. Londou, 1859, p. 364 (Jalapa, Vera- 

 cruz, Mexico). 



Rough-winged swallows were common where the road crossed the 

 wash called Barranca Honda at 3,800 feet elevation near Alotenango, 

 along the eastern base of the Volcan de Fuego. I saw 40 or 50 here 

 from November 2 to 8, and again on November 29 and 30. The notes 

 and appearance of these birds as they turned and circled in the air 

 or rested in little groujos on wires beside the road were those common 

 to the roughwing of the United States. 



On November 2 I collected two specimens. An adult male has the 

 throat lightly washed with reddish brown, but in an immature fe- 

 male there is only a slight trace of this color on the chm. The latter 

 except for the darker color of the breast and sides is closely similar to 

 the race serripennis. 



Near Panajachel on November 13 and 14 a flock of several hundred 

 swallows mainly of this group flew over the lake in the evening and 

 at sunset suddenly hurried away to some distant roost along the 

 northern shore. 



HIRUNDO RUSTICA ERYTHROGASTER Boddaert: Earn Swallow 



Hirundo erytlirogaster Boddaert, Table des planches enlumin^ez, 1783, p. 45 

 (Cayenne). 

 Near Dueilas I saw a dozen circling over an open field on October 

 30 and observed many more on November 1, 3, and 4. Several were 

 noted near Alotenango on November 5. I believed that this marked a 

 period of southward migration when they were especially common. I 

 recorded one at Chimaltenango on November 22. 



Family CORVIDAE 



CYANOCITTA STELLERI RIDGWAYI Miller and Griscom 



Cyanocitta stclleri ridgioayi Miller and Griscom, Amer. Mus. Nov., No. 184, 

 Sept. 24, 1925, p. 7 (Vol can de Fuego, Guatemala). 



This jay, known as char a, was the commonest species of its family 

 in the highland regions of Guatemala. Its range was higher in the 



