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Smallest of the group (length, 6.00; ving, f)^). 

 ' ' Tail less forked than in .su&i's . • . concolor. 



. . Females and immature males beneath of a uniform brown 



or grayish-brown, the edges of the feathers paler . elcgans. 



Adult males glossy blue-black, except belly and crissum, which 

 are snow-white. 



Females and immature males with the black of under .; ; 



1 r parts replaced by brown. Shafts of the white feathers 



white ......... domiuiceniis. 



Adult males glossy blue-black above ; dull brown or grayish- 

 brown beneath (?) ; belly and crissum white. !s->jj ,;i r '. ^/ 



• Females and immature males with the shafts of longer ''^ 



crissal, and, to some extent, of ventral feathers dusky. 



No blue-black patch on each side the breast ? Adult 

 .,;, ,, male about 6.50 inches long. Wing about 



5.00 leucogaster, 



'.: .;, A blue-black patch each side the breast? Adult 



male about 8.00 long. Wing about 5.50 . domestica. 



Progne subis. 



Hirundo subis, Linn. S. N. 10th ed. l'if)^,\92 (Flirundo ccerulea cum- 

 dcnsis, Edwards, Av. tab. 120, Hudson's Bay). 

 ~ i H. purpurea, Linn. S. N. 12th ed. 176o, 344 (//. purpurea, Catesby, 



.1 y Car. tab. 51). — Apd. Orn. Biog. I, pi. xxiii. — Ib. B. A. I, pi. slv. 

 —Max. Cab. Jour. 18.')8, 101.— Yakrell, Br. Birds, II, 232*, 2/4 

 (England and Ireland, Sept. 1842). — Jones, Nat. Bermuda, 34 

 (Sept. 22, 184[)).— Progne purpurea, BoiE, Isis, 1826, 971.— Brewer, 

 N. Am. Ool. I, 1857, 103, pi. iv, fig. 47 (eggs).— Baird, Birds N. 

 Am. 185«<, 314.— SCI.ATER, Catal. 1861, ^8.— Cooper & Suckley, P. 

 R. R. Rep. XII, 2, 186 (Fort Steilacoom).— Blakiston, Ibis, 1863, 

 « 65 (Saskatchewan). 



Hirundo violacea, Gm. I, 1026. 

 ., //. carulea, Vieill. Ois. Am. Sept. I, 1807, 57, pi. xxvi. , . 



H. versicolor, ViEHL. Nouv. Diet. XIV, 1817, 509 (U. S.). 



//. ludoviciana, Cuv. R. A. I, 1817, 374. 



Hab. The whole Bnited States and the Provinces ; Saskatchewan ; Cape 

 St. Lucas and northern Mexico (winter). Accidental in England. 



(No. 1,561, %.) Entirely lustrous steel blue, with a purplish gloss; the 

 tail feathers and the wings except the lesser and middle coverts, and edge 

 inside, dull black, scarcely glossed. Tibiae dark brownish. A conceal'il 

 patch o' white on the sides under the wings. Concealed central portion of 

 anal feathers light whitish-gray. 



(No. 1,129, 90 Above somewhat similar, but much duller. Beneath 

 smoky brownish-gray, without lustre ; paler behind, and becoming sonietiines 

 quite whitish on belly and crissum, but all the feathers always with dusky 

 shafts, and more or less clouded with gray centrally, even tliougli fadinj into 



