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REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[part I. 



the rump and under parts paler, the tibia white. A second species 

 appears to be N. fucata.^ 



(No. 150, Panama.) Total length 4.00 ; wing, 3.45 ; tail, 2.00 ; depth of 

 fork, .45 ; difference between 1st and 9th quills, 1.60; length of bill from fore- 

 head, .27, from nostril, .17, along gape, .43 ; width at base, .32 ; tarsus, .35 ; 

 middle toe and claw, .45, claw alone, .17 ; hind toe and claw, .28, claw 

 alone, .11. 



Smith- ;ColIec- 



sonian tor's 



No. No. 



Sex 

 and 



Age. 



Locality. 



When 



Collected. 



Panama R. K. 



Received from 



Cab. Lawrence. 



Collected by 



M'Lean. k Galb. 



Pygochelidon, Baird. 



Pygochelidon, Baird. (Type Hirundo cyanoleuca.) 



Bill minute. Nostrils broadly oval, nearly superior ; the plane of their out- 

 line directed obliquely forwards and inwards ; not overhung anteriorly on 

 inner edge by membrane. Tarsi rather long, equal to middle toe and half 

 claw ; the joint and upper end on inner face with adherent feathers. Inner 

 toe slightly longer. Basal joint of middle toe adlierent externally, except 

 just at the end^ internally for half the length. Tail forked for about one- 

 fourth the length. 



This subgenus differs from its other allies with the nostrils superior, 



' Atticora fucata. 



Hirundo fucata, Temm. PI. col. 161, fig. 1 (Paraguay). — Burm. Uebers. 

 Ill, 14i),—Cotijle fucata, Boie, Isis, 1844.— Cab. M. H. I, 49.— Burm. 

 Uebers;. Ill, 1856, 145.— Ib. Reise La Plata, II, 1861,478 (Mendoza). 

 Hah. Paraguay, Argentina, and La Plata basin generally ? 



This species has usually been placed in CofijJe, but probably on account of 

 the dull brown color of upper parts, somewhat like that of C. riparla. The 

 head and neck all round, with the jugulum, are reddish fulvous, above, how- 

 ever, only tinging the dark brown of the head. The breast and sides are 

 brownish, the belly and crissum white, all tinged with reddish ; in general 

 aspect, except the reddish color, much like C. riparla. It differs, however, 

 in exposed nostrils, more connate and shorter toes, short claws, and absence 

 of tuft of feathers at lower end of tarsus. 



In some respects, however, it differs decidedly from Neochelidon, as in having 

 some bristles in the cliin and along the base of commissure. The outer toe 

 is a little shorter than inner, not a little longer ; the fork of the tail is shallower, 

 the feathers broader and more rounded at tip. In many respects there is quite 

 a close relationship to Petrochelidon, differing chiefly in the shorter and more 

 adherent toes. The style of coloration is quite similar. 



