TACHYCINETA ALBIVENTRIS [Bodd). 



WHITE-WINGED SWALLOW. 



Sirondelle a ventre Uanc cle Cayenne, Daubent. PI. Enl. vii. pi. 546. fig. 1. 



White-toinged Swallow, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 2, p. 577 (1783). 



Eirundo alhiventer, Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 32 (1783, ex Daubent.) ; Gray, Gen, B. 



i. p. 58 (1845) ; id. Hand-1. B. i. p. 71, no. 843 (1869). 

 Hirundo leucoptera, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 1022 (1788) ; Nenwied, Beitr. Naturg. 



Bras. iii. p. 362 (1830) ; D'Orb. & Lafr. Syn. Av. p. 69 (1837) ; Cab. in Scliomb. 



Reis. Guian. iii. p. 672 (1848) ; Tseliudi & Cab. Faun. Peruan. p. 132 (1855). 

 Serse leucoftera, Bp. Consp. i. p. 341 (1850). 

 Fetroclielklon leucoptera, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 49 (1850). 

 Fetroclielidon alba-enter, Cass. Cat. Hirund. Mus. Pliilad. Acad. p. 5 (1853). 

 Cotyle leucoptera, Burm. Th. Bras. iii. p. 143 (1856). 

 Petrochelklon alUcentris, Sclater, Cat. Amer. B. p. 41 (1862) ; id. & Salv. P. Z. S. 



1866, p. 178 ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. pp. 17, 402 (1871) ; id. Ibis, 1873, p. lOS. 

 Jlirundo alblventris, Baird, Beview Amer. B. p. 302 (1865) ; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 



1867, p. 569 ; Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 323 ; Layard, Ibis, 1873, p. 378 ; Scl. & 

 Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 14 (1878) ; iid. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 258 ; iid. P. Z. S. 

 1879, p. 595 ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1882, p. 8 ; id. Orn. Perou, i. p. 239 (1884) ; Sharpe, 

 Cat. Birds in Brit. Mus. x. pp. 113, 630 (1885). 



? Sirundo leucorrhoa, Porbes, Ibis, 1881, pp. 315, 329. 



T. uropygio albo : tectricibus alarum et secundariis albo late marginatis. 



Hab. in America meridionali. 



Adult male. General colour above glossy steel-blue, ratlier greener on the bacU, tlic hiiul ncek and 

 mantle mottled witli •white bases to the feathers; wing-eovorts like tlie back: inmr irrcatcr 

 coverts and secondaries blue-black, broadly and cons|iicuciusly eiljrcd \\itli wliiic- tm tlie (inter 

 webs and round the tii) ; the bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and ijriniarics Ijlack, i^losscd willi 

 dull steel-blue externally ; lower back, rump, and ni)per tail-cover(s white, with lilaekish siiaft- 

 lines; longer upper tail-coverts steel-blue; tail-feathers blackish glossed with stccl-liluc, with 

 white bases to the inner web; lores and feathers below the eye vchcty black; car-eoviTts and 

 sides of neck glossy steel-blue like the head; cheeks ami entire under surface of body pure white, 

 including the thighs and under tail-coverts, under wing-coverts and axillaries ; c|uills dusky 

 below: "legs greyish brown ; iris greyish brown " (NeuwieU). Total length I'S inches, culincn 

 O-l, wing 1, tail l-'J, tarsrus 0-45. 



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