





808 



UEVIEAV OP AMERICAN BlUDS. 



[part I. 



the rump and under parts paler, the tibia white. A second specieg 

 appears to be N. fucata.^ ; •«-jrf 



(No. 150, Panama.) Total length 4.00; wing, 3.46; tail, 2.00 ; depth of 

 fork, .45 ; diflferenoe between Ist and 9th ijuillH, 1.60; length of bill from fore- 

 head, .27, from nostril, .17, along ga)>e, .43; width at baue, .32; tarsns, .35; 

 middle toe and olaw, .45, claw alone, .17 , hind too ftnd ^law, .2b, claw 

 alone, .11. .*.,iwi v^ ■■..;. i : -;./, 



Smith- Collee- 



nonian 

 No. 



tor'» 

 No. 



130 



S«x 

 and 

 Age. 



Locality. 



Pauama K. R. 



When 

 Collected. 



Received from 



Cab. Lawreuce. 



Collected \>y 



M'Lean. k Oalb. 



PYaocHELiDON, Baird. 



Pygochelidon, Baibd. (Type Hirundo cyanoUuca.) 



Bill minnte. Nostrils broadly oval, nearly snperior ; t\.t- plane of their ont- 

 liue directed obliquely forwards and inwards; nor rerhnng anteriorly on 

 inner edge by membrane. Tarsi rather long, eqaal to middle toe and half 

 claw ; the joint and upper end on inner face with adherent feathers. Inner 

 toe slightly longer. Basal joint of middle toe adherent externally, except 

 just at the end ; internally for half the length. Tail forked for about oue- 

 fourth the leu|;th. 



This subgenus differs from its other allies with the nostrils superior, 



' ii.tticora fnoata. 



Hirundo fucata, Temm. PI. col. 161, fig. 1 (Paraguay). — Bcrm. Uebers. 

 Ill, H5.— Cotyle/uca(a, BoiE, Isis, 1844.— Cab. M. H. I, 49.— Bdkii. 

 Uebers. Ill, 1856, 145.— Ib. Reise La Plata, II, 1861, 478 (Mendoza). 

 Hab. Paraguay, Argentina, and La Plata basin generally ? 



This species has usually been placed in Cotyle, but probably on account of 

 the dull brown color of upper parts, somewhat like that of C. riparia. The 

 head and neck all round, with the jugulum, are reddish fulvous, above, how- 

 ever, only tinging the dark brown of the head. The breast and sides are 

 brownish, the belly and crissum white, all tinged with reddish ; in general 

 aspect, except the reddish color, much like C riparia. It differs, however, 

 in exposed nostrils, more connate and shorter toes, short claws, and absence 

 of tuft of feathers at lower end of tarsus. 



In some respects, however, it differs decidedly from Neochelidon, as in having 

 some bristles in the chin and along the base of commissure. The outer toe 

 is a little shorter than inner, not a little longer ; the fork of the tail is shallower, 

 the feathers broader and more rounded at tip. In many respects there is quite 

 a close relationship to Petrochelidon, differing chiefly in the shoitor and more 

 adherent toes. The style of coloration is quite similar. 



