PROGNE DOMESTICA (Fieiii). 



AZARA'S PURPLE MARTIN. 



Golondrina domestica, Azara, Apunt. ii. p. 502, no. 300 (1805). 



Hirundo domestica, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xiv. p. 520 (1817). 



Progne domestica, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 59 (1815) ; id. Cat. Pissir. Brit. Mus. p. 28 



(1848) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 337 (1850) ; Cab. Mus. Hein. Tli. i. p. 51 (1850) ; Barm. 



La-Plata Reis. ii. p. 477 (1861) ; Baird, Review Amer. B. p. 2S2, note (1864) ; 



Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 75, no. S93 (1869) ; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1S69, p. 159 ; 



Pelz. Orn. Bras. pp. 17, 402 (1871); Sharpe, Cat. Birds in Brit. Mus. x. p. 177 



(1885). 

 Progne dominicensis (nee 6m.), Burin. Tli. Bras. iii. p. 141 (1856). 

 Progne elegans, Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 74, no. 888 (1869). 

 Progne chalybea (nee Gm.), Hudson, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 606 ; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1873, 



p. 258, 1879, p. 495 ; White, P. Z. S. 1S82, p. 595 ; Barrows, Bull. Nutt. Orn. 



Club, viii. p. 8S (1883) ; Scl. & Hudson, Argent. Orn. i. p. 25 (1888). 

 Progne purpurea (nee L.), Durnford, Ibis, 1877, p. 168 ; Gibson, Ibis, 1880, p. 22. 

 Progne chalybea domestica, Berlepsch & Ihering, Zeitschr. ges. Orn. ii. p. 116 



(1885). 



P. similis P. chalybea, seel major. 



Hub. in Brasilia meridionali-orientali et in. republica Argentina. 



Adult male. General colour above bright purplish blue, the lesser and median wing-coverts like the 

 back ; greater wing-coverts, bastard-wing, primary-coverts, quills, and tail-feathers black, with 

 a gloss of steel-hlue externally; lores blackish; ear-coverts and sides of neck glossy purplish blue 

 like the upper parts; cheeks dark smoky brown, tipped minutely with purplish blue; throat and 

 fore neck and chest pale ashy, with minute dusky shaft-lines, and obscured with margins of ashy 

 whitish, broader on the chest where they join the white breast ; sides of the upper breast with 

 crescentic tips of purplish blue ; breast and abdomen and under tail-coverts pure white ; thighs 

 white, with dusky bases ; flanks and sides of the body pale smoky brown, with dusky shaft- 

 streaks ; a patch of silky-white feathers on the sides of the lower back ; feathers on the sides of 

 the rump white with blue centres ; axillaries smoky brown washed w r ith blue ; under wing-coverts 

 smoky brown, with blackish shaft-stripes, the outer ones edged with white. Total length 8 

 inches, culinen 0'5, wing 5 - 75, tail 3"2, tarsus 0'55. 



Hub. South-eastern Brazil, Argentine Republic. 



This is a large race of the common South- American Progne chalybea, and it has usually 



