I'AL('( tXID.K — Til !■; KAIA'OXK 



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skins, tlio roinalo ineixsuriiiu, wiiiii, ].").;")(); tail, lo.OO. Tlio colors of Uii.s 

 I'uimile, howevoi', iiiv as in Aniorican cxiinii)lL's. Tlio male has liio iiliinia^c 

 soniowiiat clilleront Irnni anything we have seen in the small series ol' Ameri- 

 can specimens. Tiie whole U])i)er ])arts are a polished violaceous slaty- 

 hlaek, this covering the liack and lesser wing-coverts, as well as other npjjcr 

 parts. ^\ ere a large series of American specimens e.xamined, individuals 

 might perhaps be found eoiresponding in all resjjects with the pair in (iues- 

 tion. 



LIST OF SPKCI.MKXS KX A.MIXKI). 



Xatioiial Miisouin, !) : Philiulcliiliia Ac.nlemy, 3; Now York ^[u.<cniM, t (Ria/.il); 

 lJos(oii Sot'ioty, 1 ; t'amlii-iil'j;o Miisuiuii, 2; Cab. G. X. Lawrence, .'i ; Coll. It. PiiclL'wav, 

 1. Total, 2;!. 



Habits. The Swallow-tailed TIawk has an extended ilistrihution in the 

 eastern portion l North America. It is irregularly distributed ; in a large 



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part of the country it occurs only occasionally and in small numbers, and 

 is probably nowhere abundant exeejit in the southwestern C.nlf States, or 

 along the rivers and inland waters. On the Atlantic coast it has been 

 traced, according to Ur. Lawrence, as far north as New York City. Accord- 

 ing to Mr. Nuttall, individuals have been seen on the Mi.ssissi])])! as far as 

 St. Anthony's Falls, in latitude 44°. It is found more or less conunon along 

 the tributaries of the Ohio ami ]\rississip])i, where it is ess(>ntially a i>rairie 

 bird, and breeds in Southern Wisconsin, in Towa, Nebraska, and ivansas, and 

 throughout Illinois. It has been taken in Cul)a, and occasionally also in 

 Jamaica. It is found in Ceutiul America, and in South America to North- 

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