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3. PANYPTILA. 



Type. 



Panyptila, Cab. Wiegm. Arch. xiii. p. 1545 (1847) P. cayanensis. 



Pseudoprocne, Streubel, Ms, 1848, p. 358 P. cayanensis. 



Panyptila differs in so many re8j)ects from Micropus that it 

 cannot be united with that genus. Mr. Salvin has discovered and 

 described the interesting nest of P. sanctiliieronymi, which diiiers 

 entirely from all nests of Micropus, and he kindly informs me that 

 the nest of P. cayanensis is similar in construction. 



Range. Central and South America. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Much smaller; wing about 4-8 inches cayanensis, p. 4(51. 



h. Much larger; wing about l-'o inches sanctihieronyjni, p. 462. 



1. Panyptila cayanensis. 



Le Martinet a collier blauc, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 671 (1779) ; 



Bauhent. PI. Enl. pi. 7i'5. fig. 2 (1783). 

 Hirundo cayanensis, Gm. Syst. Nat. ii. p. 1024 (1788). 

 Hirundo cayennensis, Vieitl. N. D. xiv. p. 513 (1817). 

 Cypselus cayanensis, StejJi. Gen. Zool. x. p. 75 (1817) ; B}}. Consp. 



i. p. 66 (1850) ; Leot. Ois. Trinidad, p. 81 (1866) ; Gray, Rand-l. 



i. p. G4 (1869). 

 Panyptila cayanensis, Cab. Wieym. Arch. xiii. p. 345(1847) ; Burm. 



Syst. Uebers. ii. p. 369 (1856)*; Scl. P. Z. S. 1865, p. 606; id. 



J.f. O. 1867, p. 128; Layard, Ibis, 1873, p. 389; Scl. ^- Sale. 



Nom. Av. Neotr. p. 94 (1873) ; iid. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 531 



(Antioq.); Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 371(1882); Berl. ^- Tacz. 



P. Z. S. 1883, p. 569 (W. Ecuador) ; iid. Ibis, 1885, p. 436 (B. 



Guiaua) ; Scl. Ibis, 1887, p. 318. 



Adult. Deep black with a slight silky gloss ; a patch before the 

 eyes, chin, throat, narrow collar round the neck, large spot on each 

 side of the rump, narrow edges of secondaries aud inner webs of 

 primaries, basal portion of shaft and outer webs of the lateral 

 rectrices white. Total length about 4-8 inches, wing 4*8, lateral 

 rectrices 2*3, central 1*2. 



Bah. Colombia to Guiana and Brazil. 



* Spelt cajavensis 



