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HIRUNBINID^. 



glossed with steel-blue, the inner greater coverts slightly edged 

 with ashy whitish ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills 

 blackish, the inner secondaries with narrow ashy margins at the 

 tips of the feathers ; tail-feathers black, with a greenish gloss ; 

 crown of head glossy steel-blue, separated from the back by an in- 

 distinct collar of ashy brown ; forehead pale sandy buff ; lores 

 black ; ear-coverts, cheeks, and sides of face deep chestnut-rufous, 

 spreading on to the sides of the hind neck ; chin also deep chestnut- 

 rufous, glossed with a few steel-blue feathers, the lower throat 

 entirely glossy steel-blue ; fore nock and chest light ashy brown 

 washed with rufous ; the sides of the body and flanks similarly 

 coloured, with narrow dusky shaft-lines on the flanks ; centre of 

 the breast and abdomen whitish with a slight tint of brown ; vent 

 pale rufous ; under tail-coverts ashy brown, darker towards the 

 ends, the feathers distinctly margined with white ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries ashy brown, distinctly tinged with rufous, 

 especially near the edge of the wing ; quills dark ashy brown below. 

 Total length 5-3 inches, culmen 0-3, wing 4-35, tail 2-05, tarsus 0-45. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour. Total length 5-5 

 inches, culmen 0*3, wing 4-4, tail 2-15, tarsus 0-5. 



Eab. North America, tkroughout Central America in winter, to 

 Brazil and Paraguay. 



Sclater Collection. 

 Sir John Richardson 



[P-]- 

 J. Gould, Esq. 

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

 N. A. B. Commission 



[P.]. 

 J. K. Lord, Esq. [P.]. 



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

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



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



Dr. Hart Meniam [P.]. 



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



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



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

 Sclater Collection. 

 Sclater Collection. 

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



3. Petrochelidon swainsoni. 



Hirundo melanogaster, Sivains. Philos. Mag. new series, i. p. 366 



(1827) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 68 (1845). 

 Petrochelidon melanogastra, Cah. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 47 (1850). 



