ATTICORA FASCIATA ((*».)■ 



WHITE-BANDED SWALLOW. 



Hirondelle de Cayenne a bande blanche sur le ventre, Daubent. PI. Enl. vii. pi. 724. 

 fig. 2. 



Rirondelle a ceinture blanche, Montb. Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. Oil (1779). 



White-bellied Swallow, Latb. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 2, p. 567 (1783). 



Hirundo fasciata, Gin. Syst. Nat. i. p. 1022 (17S8) ; Swains. Zool. Illustr. 2nd 

 ser. i. pi. 17 (1829). 



Cecropis fasciata, Less. Compl. Buff. viii. p. 499 (1837). 



Atticora fasciata, Boie, Isis, 1844, p. 172 ; Cab. in Scbomb. Eeis. Guian. iii. p. 072 

 (1848) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 337 (1850) ; Cass. Cat. Hirund. Mus. Pbilad. Acad. p. 7 

 (1853) ; Burm. Tb. Bras. iii. p. 146 (1856) ; Sclater, Cat. Amer. B. p. 39 (1802) ; 

 Baird, Review Amer. B. p. 306 (1865) ; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 178, 1867, 

 pp. 569, 749 ; Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 72, no. 857 (1869) ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. pp. 18, 402 

 (1871) ; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 258 ; iid. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 14 (1873) 5 

 Taczan. P. Z. S. 1882, p. 8 ; Salv. Cat. Stricld. Coll. p. 152 (1882) ; id. & Godm. 

 Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 229 (1883) ; Taczan. Orn. Perou, p. 244 (1884) ; 

 Sbarpe, Cat. Birds in Brit. Mus. x. pp. 183, 634 (1885); Salvin, Ibis, 1885, 

 p. 205. 



A. supra indigotico-nigra : corpore subtus dorso imicolore : fascia lata, prtepectorali alba. 



Hab. in provincial Guianensi et Amazonica, usque ad Peruviana, Boliviam, et terrain Equatorialem. 



Nestling. Distinguished by the yellow gape, brown throat and chest and abdomen, the feathers of which 

 are edged with whity brown ; upper surface duller blue than in the adult bird, the rump and 

 upper tail-coverts brown, with paler brown edges. 



Young. Duller blue than the adult, or brown glossed with blue, with narrow edgings of whity brown to 

 the feathers, more distinct on the greater series of wing-coverts ; throat and fore neck brown 

 glossed with blue ; the entire chest and breast white ; the abdomen and sides of lower flanks 

 brown mixed with dull white ; under tail-coverts brown, slightly washed with blue, the shorter 

 ones having paler brown edges ; axillaries and under wing-coverts brown, margined with white 

 near the carpal bend of the wing. 



Adult male. General colour above glossy blue-black ; wing-coverts and quills black externally, edged 

 with the colour of the back ; tail very much forked, the feathers blue-black, glossy on their edges ; 

 lores and base of forehead velvety black ; sides of face, ear-coverts, cheeks, and entire under 

 surface of body glossy blue-black, including the under tail-coverts ; across the breast a very 

 broad band of white, extending a little way clown the flanks ; thighs white ; under wing-coverts 



