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shy was explained by the small boys who practiced marksmanship 

 on them with stones if they stopped nearby. 



Near El Sombrero from November 14 to 20 these swallows were 

 recorded in open comitry, or more frecjuently along the Rio Guarico. 

 In early morning they often alighted on bare ground on the prairies 

 or along the roads. 



On the wing this swallow appears plain gray-brown and white, 

 the rufous brown of the tliroat and upper breast and the yellowish 

 color of the abdomen showing rarely and then only under the most 

 fa^ orable conditions of light. They have the circling indecisive flight 

 of all small swallows, and in general appearance and habits suggest 

 the northern roughwing, though the call note is louder and sharper. 



Three specimens were obtained, a male taken at El Lim6n, above 

 Maracay, October 30, by Ventura Barnes, Jr., and two females shot 

 near Rancho Grande on November 3 and 9. All these have the rump 

 decidedly paler than the back, the extent of this lighter color varying 

 in the three. One of the females is renewmg the outer primaries in 

 molt. In the male the roughened serration of the outer web of the 

 outer primary is decidedly more evident than in the females. 



HIRUNDO RUSTICA ERYTHROGASTER Boddaert: Born Swallow 



Hirundo erythrogaster Boddaert, Table des planches eiilumineez, 1783, p. 4.5 

 (Cayenne) . 



At Ocumare de la Costa from October 23 to 31 the migrant barn 

 swallow was common, resting on wires at the houses near the beach 

 at Independencia or circling over the open flats. On November 13 

 I saw one 12 miles south of El Sombrero. 



On my return north, on November 26 a female followed the ship, 

 the Caracas, all day, and at nightfall we were only a short distance 

 from the southeastern coast of Puerto Rico. The bird through 

 following this course thus was returning northward, though it was 

 the time of fall migration. 



I have indicated elsewhere my belief that our American barn 

 swallow is a geographic race of the bird of the Old World. 



PYGOCHELIDON CYANOLEUCA CYANOLEUCA (Vielllot) 



Hirundo cyanoleuca Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., vol. 14, 1817, p. 509 



(Paraguay) . 



At Rancho Grande numbers of these swallows were found about the 

 hotel near El Portachuelo during the early part of November. 



