9. PETROCHELTDON. 



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Cotile fucata, Boie, Ins, 1826, p. 971 ; W/iite, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 596. 



Herse fucata. Less. Compl. Buff. viii. p. 498 (1837). 



Cotvle fucata, Gray, Cat. Fissir. Brit. Mus. p. 30 (1848) ; Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 342 (1850) ; Cass. Cat. Hirund. Mus. Philad. Acad. 



p. 10 (1853); Bnrm. Syst. Uebers. iii. p. 145 (1856); id. Eeis. La 



Plata, ii. p. 478 (1861) ; Peh. Orn. Bras. pp. 18, 402 (1871) ; Scl.^- 



Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 14 (1873). 

 Atticora fucata, Baird, Review Amer. B. p. 308 (18G5) ; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 72, no. 858 (1869). 



Adult. General colour above brown, the rump and upper tail- 

 coverts obscurely edged with dull whity brown ; wiug-coverts like 

 the back, the inner greater coverts edged with whity brown near 

 their ends ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish brown, 

 the innermost secondaries with whity-brown edges ; tail-feathers 

 dark brown ; ci'own of head deep tawny rufous, becoming clearer 

 on the hinder crown and nape ; the ear-coverts and sides of neck 

 tawny rufoixs, extending round the hind neck ; cheeks, throat, and 

 breast pale tawny ; sides of body brown, slightly washed with 

 rufous ; centre of breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts white ; 

 thighs brown ; under wing-coverts aud axillaries smoky brown, 

 slightly washed with rufous ; quills ashy brown below. Total length 

 4-6 inches, culmen 0-25, wing 4-15, tail 2, tarsus 0-45. 



Hah. Guiana and Brazil. 



a. Ad. sk. Brazil. 



b. (S ad. sk. Ypauema, Brazil (Kafterer). 



c. (S juv. sk. Cordova, Argentine Republic, 



Sept. 29 (K W, White). 



d. c? ad. sk. Roraima, British Guiana, 



Dec. 8 {H. Whitely). 



Purchased. 

 Sclater Collection. 

 Sclater Collection. 



Sclater Collection, 



9. PETROCHELIDOK ^ ^ 



Petrochelidon, Cab. Mus. Ileia. Th. i. p. 47 (1850) .... P. swainsoni. 



Ilylochi'lidon, Guid.d, Ilandh. B. Austr. i. p. Ill (1865) . . P. nigricans. 



Lagenoplastes, Gould, torn. cit. p. 113 (ls65) P. ariel. 



Bill and tail of Petrochelidon pyrrhonota. 



