9. PETEOCHELIDOX. 193 



2, Petrochelidon pyrrhonota*. 



Hirundo no. 35, Forst.er, Philos. Trans, p. 408 (1772). 



Goloiidrina rabadilla acanelada, Azara, Apunt. ii. p. 511, no. 305 



(180i>J ; Hartl. Ind. Azara, p. 19 (1847j. 

 Hirundo pyrrhonota, Vieill. Xouv. Diet. (VHist. Kat. xiv. p. 519 



(1817) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 58 (1845). 

 Hirundo lunifrons, Say in Long's Exped. Rocky Mts. ii. p. 47 (1823) 



Sivains. Faun. Bor.-Amer., Birds, p. 331 (1831) ; Brewer, Proc. 



Bost. Soc. N. If. 1852, p. 270 ; Wood, Report Zuni and Color. R. 



1853, p. 64 ; Cass. III. B. Calif, p. 243 (1856) ; Bretver, N. A7ner 



Ool. p. 94, pi. 5. figs. 68-73 (1857) ; Baird, in Baird, Cass., ^• 



Later. B. ^'. Amer. p. 309 (1858) ; Blakisf. Ibis, 18G.3, p. 64 ; 



Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 71, no. 836 (1869) ; Dall i^- Bann. Trans. 



Chicago Acad. i. p. 279 (1869) ; Cooper, B. Calif, p. 104 (1870) 



Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. iii. p. 176 (1872) ; Marling, Handb 



Brit. B. p. 125 (1872). 

 Hirundo opifes, De Witt Clinton, Ann. Lye. N. Y. i. p. 161 (1824). 

 Hirundo respublicana, Auduh. Ann. Lye. N. Y. i. p. 164 (1824). 

 Hirundo fulva (no?i K), De Witt Clinton, Ann. Lye N. Y. i. p. 156 



(1824) ; Bp. Amer. Orn. i. p. 63, pi. 7. fig. 1 (1825) ; Audub. B. 



Amer. pi. 68 (c. 1826) ; id. Orn. Biogr. i. p. 353 (1831) ; Bp. 



Comp. List B. Em: 8)- N. Amer. p. 9 (1838) ; Audub. B. Amer. 



8vo, i. p. 77, pi. 47 (1840) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 58 (1845, pt.). 

 Cecropis lunifron.-i, Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 315, 1844, p. 175. 

 Cecropis pyrrhonota, Boie, Isis, 1844, p. 173. 

 Herse fulva, pt. (jiec V.), Bp. Consp. i. p. 341 (1850). 

 Petrochelidon americana. Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 47, note (1850) ; 



Pelz. Orn. Bras. pp. 17, 402 (1871). 

 Petrochelidon fulva {nee V.), Bp. C. R. xxxviii. p. 650 (1854, pt.). 

 Hii-undo fulvus [nee V.), Willis, &mith.t. Rep. 1858-59, p. 281. 

 Petrochelidon lunifrons, Cass. Cat. Hirund. Mus. Philad. Acad. p. 4 



(1853); La^cr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 317 (1861); Scl. Cat. 



Amer. B. p. 40 (1862) ; Coues, Key N. Amer. B. p. 114 (1872) ; 



id. B. N.- West, p. 88 (1874) ; Baird, Brewer, if Ridgio. Hist. N. 

 Amer. B. i. p. 334, pi. 16. fig. 13 (1874) ; Ridgio. Rep. Survey AOth 

 Par. iv. p. 440 (1877) ; Coues, B. Color. Vail. p. 426 ; id. Check-list 



N. Amer. B. p. 43 (1882). 

 Herse lunifrons, Coues, Ibis, 1865, p. 159. 

 Petrochelidon pjTrhonota, Scl. i^ Salv. Numencl. Av. Keotr. p. 14 



(1873) ; Durnf. Ibis, 1877, p. 169 ; White, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 595 ; 



Salv. ^- Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 226 (1883). 



AiJuU male. General colour above glossy dark steel-blue, streaked 

 on the back with more or less concealed ashj^-whitish edges to the 

 feathers ; lower back and rump cinnamon-rufous, the upper tail- 

 coverts brown with ashy margins ; wing-coverts black, slightly 



* It is possible that the following references belong to the present species 

 but the descriptions are not sufficiently good to determine the bird accu- 

 rately: — 



Hirondelle a croupion roas et queue carree, Month. Hist. yai. Ois. vi. 



p. 098(1779). 

 Eufous-rumped Swallow, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 2, p. 582 (1783). 

 Hirundo americana, Gm. Si/st. iS'at. i. p. 1017 (1783, ex Lath.) ; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 71, no. 840 (1869). 

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