178 HIRUNDINID.I;. 



ProOTe chalybea (7ion Gm.\ Hudson, P. Z. S. 1S72, p. 606; Sd. 8r 

 &ilv. P. Z. S. 1873, p. ■26S, 1879, p. 495; White, P. Z. S. 1882, 

 p. 595. 



Ailult male (Sta. Catarina, Brazil ; Rogers), General colour above 

 bright purplish blue, the lesser and median wing-coverts like the 

 back ; greater wing-coverts, bastard- wing, primarj--coverts, quills, 

 and tail-feathers black, with a gloss of steel-blue externally ; lores 

 blackish ; ear-coverts and sides of neck glossy purplish blue like 

 the upper parts ; cheeks dark smoky brown, tipped minutely with 

 purplish blue ; tnroat and fore neck and chest pale ashy, with 

 minute dusky shaft-lines, and obscured with margins of ashy 

 whitish, broader on the chest where rhey join the white breast ; 

 sides of the upper breast with cresccntic tips of piirplish blue ; 

 breast and abdomen and under tail-coverts pure white ; thighs 

 white, with dusky bases ; flanks and sides of the body pale smoky 

 brown, with dusky shaft-streaks ; a patch of silky-white feathers 

 on the sides of the lower back ; feathers on the sides of the riimp 

 white with blue centres ; axillaries smoky brown washed with 

 blue ; under wing-coverts smoky brown, with blackish shaft-stripes, 

 the outer ones edged with white. Total length 8 inches, culmen 0-5, 

 wing 5'75, tail 3'2, tarsus 0-55. (Mus. Salvin and Godman.) 



Eah. Southern Brazil and Paraguay. 



«. Ad. sk. Santa Catarina, Brazil Sclater Collection. 



{Rogers) . 



b. Ad. sk. Buenos Ayres {Hudson). Sclater Collection. 



c. Ad. ; d. Juv. sk. Brazil. R. B. Shai-pe, Esq. [P.]. 



6. Progne chalybea. 



Hirondelle de Cayenne, Briss. Om. ii. p. 495 (1760) ; Dauhent. PL 

 Enl. vii. pi. 545. fig. 2 (fig. mal.) ; Month. Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 675 



■ (1779). 



Chalybeate Swallow, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 2, p. 574 (178.3). 



Hirundo chalybea, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 1026 (1788); Neuwied, Beitr. 

 Naturg. Bras. iii. p. 354 (1830). 



Cecropis chalybea, Less. Compl. Buff. viii. p. 498 (1837). 



Progne chalvbea, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 59 (1845) ; id. Cat. Fissir. Brit. 

 Mu.% p. 28 ( 1848) ; Bp. Coyisp. i. p. 337 (1850) ; Cab. 3Lis. Hein. 

 Th. i. p. 51 (1850) ; Cass. Lll. B. Calif, p. 246 (1850) ; Cab. J.f. O. 

 1860, p. 402 ; Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1860, p. 133 ; La%or. Ann. 

 Ia/c. N. Y. y\\. p. 318 (1861) ; Baird, Pevietv Amer. B. p. 282, 

 note (1864) ; Sd. ^- Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 348; Gray, Hatid-l. B. 

 i. p. 74, no. 887 (1869) ; Layard, Ibis, 1873, pp. 375, 377 ; Sd. ^ 

 Salv. Nomeucl. Ac. Neotr. p. 14; iid. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 258, 1879, 

 p. 495 ; White, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 595 ; Salv. Cat. StricM. Coll. p. 154 

 (1882) ; id. ^- Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 224 (1883). 



Progne domestica, Gray, Cat. Fissir. Brit. Mm. p. 28 (1848). 



Progne dominiceusis {noti Gm.), Gray, Cat. Fissir. Brit. Mus. p. 28 

 (1848) ; Cah. Mas. Hein. Th. i. p. 51 (1850) ; Cass. Cat. Hirund. 

 Mus. Philad. Acad. p. 10 (1853) ; Burm. Th. Bras. iii. p. 141 

 (1856) ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1857, pp. 201, 232, 1859, p. 364, 1860, 

 p. 292 ; Sd. ^- Salv. Ibis, 18-59, p. 13: Sah. Ibis, 1859, p. 466; 

 G. C. Taylor, Ibis, 1860, p. 110 ; Owen, Ibis, 1861, p. 61 ; Sclater, 



