7. PEOGNE, 



175 



g. 2 'id. sk. 

 h, i. (S $ ad. sk. 



k. (S ad. sk. 



I. S ad. sk. 



?«. $ jiiv. sk. 



n. $ ad. sk. 



0, J?. cJad. et juv. 



sk. 

 g. cJ inini. sk. 



r. (S imm. sk. 



s. S juv. sk. 

 t. (S ad. sk. 

 j«. Juv. st. 

 V, UK Ad. sk. 

 X. c? ad. sk. 



Canada, May ( O. Salvin). 

 Chicago, Illinois, May 23 



(H. K. Cuale). 

 Willow Spring, Arizona, 



July 12 {H. W. Hcn- 



shaiv). 

 District of Columbia, 



May 8 {Cones). 

 Fort Whipple, Arizona, 



Aug-. 11 \E. Coites). 

 Fort Macon, N.C. {Beak). 

 Mount Shasta, Cali- 



foruia. 

 Mormon Island, Cali- 

 fornia, June 22 {A. 



Forrei-). 

 Big Trees, California, 



May 24 {A. Forrer). 

 CapeS. Lucas(Ara«</i?<s). 

 Brazil. 

 Para. 

 Bahia. 

 Barra do Rio Negro, Dec. 



24 {Natter er). 



Sclater Collection. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



U.S. Nat. Museum [P.]. 



U.S. Nat. Museum [P.]. 



U.S. Nat. Museum [P.]. 



U.S. Nat. Museum [P.]. 

 Lord Walsingham [P.j. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



U.S. Nat. Museum [P.]. 

 Sclater Collection. 

 R. Graham, Esq. [P.]. 

 Sudbury Museum. 

 Sclater Collection. 



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2. Progne furcata. 

 Progne purpiu-ea (wow L.), Gould, Voy. * Beaijle^ Birds, p. 38 (1841) ; 

 Hudson, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 675 ; Durtiford, Ibis, 1877, pp. 32, 168, 

 1878, p. 392 ; Gibson, Ibis, 1880, p. 22. 

 Progne modesta {nee Gould), Gray, Cat. Fissir. Brit. Mus. p. 28 (1848). 

 Progne furcata, Baird, Revieiv Amer. B. p. 278 (1864) ; Sclater, 

 P. Z. S. 1867, pp. 321, 337 ; id. P. Z. S. 1808, p. 631 ; Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. i. p. 74, no. 890 (1869). 

 Progne elesans, juv., Baird, Revieiv Amer. B. p. 275 (1864) ; id. in 



Baird, Brewer, S,- Ridyw. Hist. N. Amer. B. i. p. .328 (1874). 

 Progne domestica, Scl. S,- Salv. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 159. 

 Adult male. General colour purplish blue above and below ; the 

 lesser and median wing-coverts like the back ; greater coverts, 

 bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills black, glossed externally 

 with blue ; tail-feathers black, washed with blue ; on the sides of the 

 back a small tuft of silky white feathers. Total length 7'7 inches, 

 culmen 0-5, wing 5"55, tail 3-3, tarsus 0*6. 



Adult female. General colour above dull blue, with a brown 

 shade on the forehead and hinder neck ; wing-coverts like the back, 

 the greater and primary-coverts and quills blackish, glossed ex- 

 ternally with dull blue, browner on the inner webs ; tail-feathers 

 blackish glossed with blue ; lores dusky blackish ; sides of face and 

 ear-covcrts dull smoky brown, with a slight blue gloss ; cheeks and 

 throat dull smoky brown ; remainder of under surface of body dark 

 smokj" brown, with blackish shaft-streaks, and obscured with broad 

 whity-brown edges to the feathers ; the under tail-coverts coloured 

 like the breast, the long ones dtiU brown, with whity-brown edges 

 and a distinct subterminal shade of purplish black ; sides of body 

 ncarlj' uniform dark brown, with a purplish gloss ; axillaries and 

 under wing-coverts uniform smoky brown, the coverts near the edge 



