ATTICORA. 345 



oGO. Atticora fasciata. 

 White-banded Swallow. 



Birundo fasciata Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 1022, 1789 (Cayenne). 



Atticora fasciata Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Guian. iii. p. 672, 184S ; Sahnn, 

 Ibis, 1S85, p. 205 (Eoraima, 3500 ft.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 X. pp. 183, 634, 1885 (Kiver Atapuro\v, Menime Mts.) ; Beebe, Our 

 Search for n Wilderness, pp. 162, 175, 200, 265, 379, 1910 (Hoorie 

 Creek, Aremu River, Abary Savannas) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. 

 Amer. i. p. 327, no. 3387, 1912. 



Adult male. Glossy steel blue-black both aboye and below ; 

 inner webs of flight-quills and tail-feathers dull black ; thiohs and 

 a ^yide band across the breast white ; under surface of flight-quills 

 and lower aspect of tail dusky-brown. 



Total length 135 mm., exposed culmen 6, wing 92 ; tail — middle 

 feathers 41, outer ones 63 ; tarsus 11. 



The exact locality of the bird described is unknown. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male. Wing 101 mm. 



A^'oung l)ird, collected by Mr. McConnell on the Kurubung 

 River during his expedition to Mount Rorainia in October 1898, 

 differs from the adult in being less glossy on the upper surface and 

 in having the throat, fore-neck, abdomen, and under tail-coverts 

 dusky-black, some of the feathers on the fore-neck minutely tipped 

 with hoary-grey. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in Britisli Guiana. 



Sest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Ef/f/s. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British (jrnana Kurubung Kiver (il/f Connell collection) ; 

 Mount Roraima, 3500 ft., Kaniarang River, Merume Mountains 

 {MJiiteh/) ; Hoorie River, Aremu River, Abary Savannas (Beebe) 



E.vtralimital Range. Cayenne ( Gmelin^, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, 

 Bolivia. 



Habits. Schomburgk states (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 672) that he 

 found this beautiful Swallow tiying to and fro over the surface of 

 the Barima and liarama Itivers. It wa^ also fond of perching on 

 the twigs of trees fallen into the rivers. Its nidiflcation was 

 unknown to hini. 



The following notes have been copied from Beel)e (Our Search 

 for a Wilderness) : — 



P. 200. — " Swallows were seen in numbers, small, dark steel- 

 blue in colour with a strikinir band of white across the breast. 



