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tending rather further along on the breast ; the feathers in the middle of the 
breast with a darker patch on their inner webs, only visible on raising the 
feathers. Entire crissum from anus black, glossed on surface with steel blue, 
the bases all dark plumbeous. Lining of wings and axillars dark smoky 
brown; side of body under wings washed with grayish brown. Tibia brown, 
the feathers slightly tipped with whitish. 
Immature specimens show traces of a fulvous or rusty yellowish wash on 
the under parts. 
(No. 35,050.) Total length, 4.80 ; wing, 3.85 ; tail, 2.40, fork, .45 ; difference 
of quills, 1.68 ; length of bill from forehead, .31, from nostril, .16, along gape, 
.45, width, .382; tarsus, .41; middle toe and claw, .53, claw alone, .15; hind 
toe and claw, .35, claw alone, .16. 
A. melanoleuca' appears to differ principally in having a black 
pectoral band. .A. patagonica has the base of crissum white; the 
interscapular feathers gray in the middle, not white. 
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Smith-/Collec- Sex When 
sonian| tor’s | and Locality. Golected Received from Collected by 
No. No. | Age. ; 
35,050 65 | Q Bahia Negra. | June, 1859. | Capt. Page, Expl. Chr. Wood. 
32,743 |10,140 | ¢ Brazil. at Verreaux.[Parana.| "25 ieee. 
15,006 ss ce U. 8. Expl. Exped. T. R. Peele. 
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ison a “ Nii 
as 50a) <6 Bahia. 300 Cab. Lawrence: 9 Sse eee 
Atticora cyanoleuca, var. montana. 
Atticora cyanoleuca, var. montana, Batrp.—?Petrochelidon cyanoleucus, 
Sciater, P. Z. 8. 1858, 551 (Riobamba).—Is. 1859, 138.—Is. 1860, 
75 (Quito) ; 85 (Nanegal).—Is. Catal. 1861, 40, no. 241.—Atticora 
cyanoleuca, Cas. Jour. f. Orn. 1861, 91. 
FHirundo melampyga, Tscuupt, F. Peruana, 133 (not of Licur.). 
?Hirundo cyanoleuca, Darwin, Birds Beagle, 41 (Valparaiso; builds in 
holes in banks). 
Hab. Costa Rica: south along Andes to Chile? 
(No. 34,676, 9.) Very similar to A. cyanoleuca, of Brazil, in color and size, 
although rather smaller, except that the tail is more deeply forked (.60 deep, 
instead of .45); the bill larger, broader, and more depressed (from nostril 
.18, instead of .16); the sides of the body under the wings blackish, with 
slight steel blue gloss (in true cyanoleuca merely brownish dusky, without 
gloss). Upper parts glossed with violet, instead of uniform steel blue, having 
a tinge of greenish. A slight, almost inappreciable wash of rusty yellowish 
beneath. 
1 Atticora melanoleuca. 
Hirundo melanoleuca, Max. Beit. III, 371 (Brazil).—Temm. Pl. Col. 209, 
2.—Alticora m. BurmetstER, Uebers. III, 1856, 146 (Central Brazil). 
Middle of dorsal feathers white; tail 3}. 
Hab. Brazil. 
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