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sent by Arce in 1869. All McLeannan's specimens are young birds just commencing to 

 don their glossy blue plumage, but the date of their capture is not recorded. Two of 

 Arce's specimens are in a similar plumage, but one is quite adult. Besides these birds 

 we have examined one fully plumaged specimen from the " Valley of Aragua," wherever 

 that may be. Such is the locality attached to the skin by the late Mr. G. fe. Gray. 



Our records from Colombia are few. An adult from Bogota is in the Sclater collec- 

 tion ; and Mr. Wyatt writes : — " We did not observe this species in the Magdalena valley ; 

 and it seems to be a bird of the ' tierra templada ; ' its upward range, so far as our 

 observations went, terminates at an altitude of about 8000 feet. It was a common bird 

 at Ocana, in the Cordillera, and might generally be seen with Progne tapera on the roof 

 of our house." 



A female from Erontino, in Antioquia, obtained by the late T. K. Salmon, is in the 

 Salvin-Godman collection. 



Mr. Goering sent a young male in first moult from Puerto Cabello in Venezuela, 

 shot in June, and further to the east Mr. Henry Whitely met with the species in British 

 Guiana. He procured two young birds in brown plumage with a few blue feathers 

 appearing, on the 6th and 8th of May, 1882, and two fully plumaged birds on Boraima 

 on the 23rd of November and the 10th of December, 1881. 



From Ecuador we have examined quite a series, both old and young birds, from 

 Mr. Gould's collection, probably all from the neighbourhood of Quito. Eully adult birds 

 from Sical and Chiquinda, obtained by the late C. Buckley, are in the Salvin-Godman 

 collection. Mr. Eraser met with the species at Biobamba, Pallatanga, Quito, in May, 

 " common in and about the city," and at Nanegal and Perucho, where it was " common 

 and building in the roofs." 



In Peru, Tschudi states that they are seldom found as high as the Sierra region, and 

 he has noticed their nests in hollow trees. Dr. Taczanowski, who has described the 

 Peruvian collections of Jelski and Stolzmann, has recorded both old and young birds 

 from that country and gives the following localities : — Lima, Aimable Maria, Tambillo, 

 Nov. 22 ; Pacasmayo, June 14 ; Callacate, May 22 ; Huambo, April 5. The following 

 specimens are in the British Museum from Mr. H. "Whitely's Peruvian collections : — 

 Cosnipata, adults, Eebruary and September ; Arequipa, adults in June, and young in 

 February ; Cosnipata, adults in Eebruary, March, aud September ; and Chanchamayo, 

 young in first moult, in August and September. He also met with it at Maranura, north 

 of Cuzco. If one may read the history of the species in Peru from the specimens before 

 us, it would seem that two broods at least must be reared, and that some young birds 

 are beginning to moult in August and September, others not till Eebruary. The old 

 birds are in very worn plumage in Eebruary, and are moulting in March. After com- 

 pleting the moult they are probably breeding by June, to judge by the worn plumage, 

 and do not quit the country at all. 



An adult specimen was obtained by Mr. Bridges in Bolivia, with totally black under 

 tail-coverts, and an adult bird from Cangalli, in the province of Yungas, collected by 



