ISfi HIRUNDINID^. 



Cecropis melanoleuca, Lens. Compl. Buff. viii. p. 41)9 (1837). 



Horse nielauoleuca, lip. Consp. i. p. 341 (1850). 



Atticora melanoleuca, Bunn. Si/st. Ucbcrs. iii. p. 146 (1856) ; Baird, 

 Bn-iejv Amer. B. p. 310 {lAm) ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. pp. 18, 402 

 (1871) ; Scl. Sf Salv. Nomencl. Av. Keotr. p. 14 (1873); Salo. ^ 

 Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 229 (1883). 



Adult. General colour above dull blue-black, the feathers with 

 ash-coloured bases ; lesser and median wing-coverts like the back ; 

 greater coverts, bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills brown, 

 glossed sliglitly with blue on the outer web ; tail-feathers brown, 

 also faintly glossed with blue ; lores velvety black ; ear-coverts and 

 feathers below the eye blue-black ; cheeks and throat white, sepa- 

 rated from the breast by a broad band of blue-black ; remainder 

 of under surface white, washed with brown on the sides of the body 

 and thighs ; in the centre of the chest a longitudinal spot of blue- 

 black feathers below the breast-band ; sides of upper breast blackish 

 washed with blue ; under tail-coverts blackish, slightly washed with 

 blue ; axillaries and under wing-coverts blackish brown, the coverts 

 near the edge of the wing edged with white ; quills dusky below : 

 " bill black ; legs blackish ashy brown ; iris dark " (Nemvied). 

 Total length 5'5 inches, culmen 0"3, wing 4"8, tail 2-9, tarsus 0-45. 



Hub. Brazil. 



a. Ad. sk. Forte do Principe, Brazil {Natterer). Sclater Collection. 



5. Atticora cyanoleuca. 



Golondrina de los timoneles negros, Azara, Ajmnt. ii. p. 508 (1802) ; 

 Hurtl. Ind. Azara, p. 19 (1847). 



Hirundo cyanoleuca, Vieill. N. Diet, d' Hist. Nat. xiv. p. 509 (1817) ; 

 GoiddinBariv. Voy. ' BeaqleJ Birds, p. 41 (1841) ; Oray, Gen. B. i. 

 p. 58 (1845) ; id. Cat. Fissir. Brit. Mm. p. 27 (1848) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 

 1807, p. 321 ; Grai/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 72, no. 851 (1809). 



Plirundo minuta, Nemvied, Beitr. Naf,urq. Bras. iii. p. 369 (1830) ; 

 Temm. PI. Col. iv. pi. 209. fig. 1 (1823). 



Hirundo melanopyga, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 57 (1823) ; TscJmdi Sf 

 Cab. Faun. Periian. p. 133 (1855). 



Hirundo patagonica, Lafr. 8f d'Orb. Syn. Av. 1837, p. 69 ; Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. i. p. 72, no. 855 (1869). 



Hirundo melanoleuca (jwc Nemvied), Gray, Cat. Fissir. Brit. Mus. 

 p. 26 (1848). 



Herse cyanoleuca, Bp. Consp. i. p. 341 (1850). 



Atticora cyanoleuca, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 47 (1850) ; Bimn. Th. 

 Bras. iii. p. 147 (1856) ; Baird, Eerieiv Amer. B. p. 309 (1805) ; 

 Cab. J. f. O. 1860, p. 401, 1861, p. 92; Bwfn. Peis. La Plata, ii. 

 p. 479 (1861) ; Sclater, Cat. Amer. B. p. 40 (1862) ; id. ^ Salv. 

 P. Z. S. 1866, p. 178, 1867, pp. 749, 984, 1868, p. 568, 1869, 

 T). 159 ; Salv. Pns, 1869, p. 184 ; id. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 184 ; Pelz. 

 Orn. Bras. pp. 18, 402 (1871) ; Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 323 ; Hud- 

 son, P. Z. S. 1872, pp. 844, 845, 1873^ p. 258 ; Scl. S^ Salv. Nomencl. 

 Av. Nentr. p. 14 ; iid. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 258 ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1874, 

 p. 510; Set. 1^ Sah: P. Z. S. 1876, p. 16; Durnford, Ibis, 1876, 

 p. 158, 1877, pp. 32, 1 70, 1878, p. 392 ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 224 ; 



