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position of the nostrils this is precisely the case. The wing is 

 but slightly longer than that of the Cliff Swallow. The tail is 

 forked, and of intermediate length. The feet are intermediate, 

 but most resemble those of the Cliff Swallow. The colors of the 

 iris, bill, and feet, were noted at the time of capture as indistinguish- 

 able from those of its mate — a Barn Swallow. In coloration, 

 the wings and tail are intermediate between those of the two 

 species, which are brown in the Cliff Swallow and blue in the 

 Barn Swallow. The forehead is ferruginous, as in the Barn 

 Swallow ; but the sides of the head and neck, behind the eye, where 

 blue in the Barn Swallow and ferruginous in the Cliff Swallow, 

 are an intimate mixture of the two. On the back, the buffy-white 

 edging of the feathers is apparent, but not so plainly indicated as 

 in the Cliff Swallow (the whole upper surface, except the ferrugi- 

 nous frontal band, is uniform steel-blue in the Barn Swallow) , 

 The rump and upper tail-coverts differ from those of either species, 

 although the pattern is that of the Cliff Swallow; the color instead 

 of tawny-ochraceous is cream-buff, lightly and irregularly spotted 

 with blue, the longest coverts being purplish brown. The under 

 parts most closely resemble those of the Barn Swallow ; chin and 

 throat hazel, darker than the Barn Swallow and lighter than the 

 Cliff Swallow, from which latter it differs in having the hazel color 

 more extended posteriorly, and in lacking the black pectoral spot. 

 The whole underparts, including the under tail-coverts, are washed 

 with ferruginous, but less strongly so than in the Barn Swallow. 

 The under wing-coverts are intermediate. Two outer rectrices 

 are spotted with grayish white on the inner webs, these being 

 immaculate in the Cliff Swallow, spotted in the Barn Swallow. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Franklin's Gull in the Virginia Mountains. — I desire to place upon 

 record the capture by myself of a stray specimen of Franklin's Rosy Gull 

 {Larus franklinii) at Blacksburg, Montgomery Co., Virginia (No. 757, 

 coll. E. A. S.). This is a first record for the State ; and I have as yet seen no 

 other record for the Eastern States. On the 24th of October, 1898, I was 



