PROONE. 

 lioary oollar. Epigastrium witli a median line of rounded 



285 



brown spot* 



fuica.^ 



' Progne fusoa. 



Uirundo J'lixva, ViKiLL. Nouv. Diet. XIV, 1817, 510.- 'n. Encyol. Moth. 



II, 529 (biiHed on Golondrinn dn la i>unlii, Azaha, Apunt. II, 1805, 



"' 505, no. 301, I'liraguuy). — J\oyue/u6ca, Cab. Mud. lleiu. 1, 1850-1 



'"^' (not of Gray?). 



I i,i. 



Ilah. Region of the ParPua. 



:/ 



(No. 12,042, % .) In coloration and markin((9 an al nio:.t exact reproduction 

 of Cotiile riparia, although much larger. Aliovo rather light suioky brown, 

 witliout metallic lustre ; the rump not paler than the back ; the (IuiIIh and 

 tail feathers considerably darker, their upper surfaces with a faint greenish 

 gloss. All the smaller feathers above with paler edges. Beneath pure white ; 

 the sides of body and breast, lining of wings, tibiaa, and a jn-ctorai band, 

 brown li ■ the back, the latter glosaed with whitish. Featliers along median 

 line of belly, from pectoral band almost to vent, with large, somewhat con- 

 cealed rounded blotches of brown, especially on the inner webs. Side of the 

 neck, with its lower half hoary white, this color extending round above so as 

 to form a nuclial .. .nd, but narrower, and much obscured wit <> brown. Feathers 

 of crisHuni and oh.in, including their shaft, pure white from base. Bill and 

 legs apparently dark brown. 



The boundary between the white and brown on the side of head is in a line 

 with the commissure, though even below this and on the side of lower jew 

 the feathers are tinged with brown. The smaller under wing coverts, and thu 

 feathers along the edge of the wing inside, are rather broadly margined with 

 white. 



(No. 16,341.) Total length, 6.50 ; wing, 4.85 ; tall, 3.00 ; dopth of fork, .32 ; 

 difference of primaries, 2.35 ; length of bill from forehead, .61, from nostiil, 

 .34; along gape, .85 ; tarsus, .54: middle toe and claw, .75 ; claw alone, .25 ; 

 hind toe and claw, .50 ; claw alone, .24. 



The specimens here described, from Capt. Page's collection, are labelled 

 " Brazils," but were probably taken on the Parana River, in the interior of 

 the country, anu in the region of Azara's species. It is, however, possible 

 that the species may be the tapera, as restricted by authors, and the bird I 

 have considered as tapera, true /usca, if not an unnamed species. 



A specimen from the Vermejo (21,012) differs in lacking almost entirely V.ie 

 paler edges of the feathers of upper parts, and in having the sides of the neck 

 much less hoary. The inside of the wing is less varied with white. >, ,p 



Smith, i Col lec- Sex 

 sonianj tor's j and 

 No. I Asre. 



No, 



16.341 120 



16,:t4,3 la) 



12,iM2 120 



'21,012 38 



? 



Locality. 



Brazil. 



Vermejo River. 



When 

 Collected. 



Oct. 1839. 

 It 



II 

 Feb. 1860. 



Received from 



Capt. Pace, Expl. 

 " [Parana R. 



Collected by 



Chr. Wood. 



