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with a few scattered feathers; above grayish brown, somewhat 
fuliginous, with a tendency to paler margins to the feathers; 
beneath pure white, with a band across the breast and sides of 
the body like the back. 
Length, 4.75; wing, 4; tail, 2: 
Habitat, Northern Hemisphere. 
STELGIDOPTERYX SERRIPENNIS (AupbusBown). (617.) 
ROUGH-WINGED SWALLOW. 
This swallow arrives about the same time of the arrival of 
the Bank Swallow, and is no less common in some sections 
breeding in different localities, but more generally in banks 
IT am less familiar with its habits or history than with most 
of the other species of its family. Dr. Hvoslef reports it ‘‘one 
of our very common swallows” arriving at Lanesboro, 
April 19, (1884). I have never seen the nest in situ, but the 
eggs are by no means rare amongst our odlogists. They are 
said to be 4 or 5 in number, and white. They leave the State 
quite as early as any of the swallows, I think. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. 
Tail slightly emarginate; first primary with the pennule of 
the outer web much stiffened, with their free extremities recur 
ved into a hook very appreciable to the touch. Above rather 
light sooty-brown, beneath whitish-gray or light brown-ash, 
becoming nearly pure white in the middle of the belly, and on 
the under tail coverts. 
Length, 4.50; wing, 4.30; tail, 2.25. 
Habitat, United States at large. 
Family AMPELID. 
AMPELIS GARRULUS (L ). (618.) 
BOHEMIAN WAXWING. 
The Bohemian Waxwing is one of our winter visitants, arriv 
ing variously from the first of December to the 20th of that 
month. 
The closest observation locally, and a wide correspondence 
extending over the State has failed to note their presence for 
several winters in succession occasionally, yet they may be put 
down as rather an abundant species during a portion of the 
winter and long into spring. They are in flocks of from 20 to 
50 or even more, and are often most numerous in spring when 
they have entirely escaped observation in the autumn or early — 
winter. 
