APPENDIX 



TO THE 



GENUS PETROCHELIDON. 



PETROCHELIDON NIGRICANS [anteh, p. 525]. 



Add:— 



Aninochelidon nigricans, Bald. J. f. O. 1869, p. 40(5. 



Petroclielidon nigricans, Skarpe, Voy. ' Alert,' p. 21 (1884) ; Sliarpe & Wyatt, 

 Monogr. Hirund. pt. v. (1887) ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. B. p. 3 (1888) ; Buller, 

 B. New Zeal. 2nd ed. i. p. 74 (1888) ; North, Cat. Nests & Eggs Austr. B. p. 32 

 (1889) ; Salvad. Agg. Orn. Papuasia, ii. p. 69 (1889), iii. p. 225 (1891). 



Hirundo nigricans, Finsch, Vog. der Siidsee, p. 5 (1884). 



Mr. A. J. North has the following note : — " This species is to he found throughout the 

 whole of Australia, Tasmania, and the southern portion of New Guinea. It arrives in 

 New South Wales and Victoria in August, and leaves again at the latter end of 

 February. It deposits its eggs, three in number, on the decayed wood of a hollow 

 branch, or hole, of a tree. The ground-colour is of a pinky white, covered with minute 

 freckles of light rusty brown, particularly towards the larger end, where, in some 

 instances, interrupted with lilac spots, they form a zone. Others, again, are pure white 

 with a few fine dots of light red. A set taken by Mr. K. H. Bennett at Mossgiel on 

 the 16th of September, 1883, measure as follows:— (a) 0-73x0-53 inch; (b) 072 x 

 0-54 inch ; (c) 0"68 X 0-54 inch. 



For the geographical distribution of this species, vide supra, Plate 83 [Map]. 



