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with a few scattered feathers; above grayish brown, somewhat 

 fuliginous, with a tendency to paler margins to the feathers; 

 beneath pure white, with a band across the breast and sides of 

 the body like the back. 



Length, 4.75; wing, 4; tail, 2, 



Habitat, Northern Hemisphere. 



STELGIDOPTERYX SERRIPENNIS (Audubon). (617.) 

 ROUGH-WINGED SWALLOW. 



This swallow arrives about the same time of the arrival of 

 the Bank Swallow, and is no less common in some sections 

 breeding in different localities, but more generally in banks 



I am less familiar with its habits or history than with most 

 of the other species of its family. Dr. Hvoslef reports it "one 

 of our very common swallows" arriving at Lanesboro, 

 April 19, (1884). I have never seen the nest in situ, but the 

 eggs are by no means rare amongst our oologists. They are 

 said to be 4 or 5 in number, and white. They leave the State 

 quite as early as any of the swallows, I think. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. 



Tail slightly emarginate; first primary with the pennulas of 

 the outer web much stiffened, with their free extremities recur 

 ved into a hook very appreciable to the touch. Above rather 

 light sooty-brown, beneath whitish-gray or light brown-ash, 

 becoming nearly pure white in the middle of the belly, and on 

 the under tail coverts. 



Length, 4.50; wing, 4.30; tail, 2.25. 



Habitat, United States at large. 



Family AMPELID^. 



AMPELIS GARRFLUS (L ). (618.) 

 BOHEMIAN WAXWING. 



The Bohemian Waxwing is one of our winter visitants, arriv 

 ing variously from the first of December to the 20th of that 

 month. 



The closest observation locally, and a wide correspondence 

 extending over the State has failed to note their presence for 

 several winters in succession occasionally, yet they may be put 

 down as rather an abundant species during a portion of the 

 winter and long into spring. They are in flocks of from 20 to 

 50 or even more, and are often most numerous in spring when 

 they have entirely escaped observation in the autumn or early 

 winter. 



