90 STELGIDOPTEEYX SEERIPENNIS, EOUG-H-WINGED SWAI.LOW. 



GiR., B. L. 1. 1844, 37.— Lemb., Aves Cubce, 1850, 47, pi. 7, f. 3.— Jones, Nat. Berm. 

 34. — Fowler, Am. Nat. iii, 1889, 116 ; aud of earlier authors generally. 



Sirundo ripmia americana, Maxim., J. f. O. vi, 1858, 101. 



Cotyle riparia, BoiE, Isis, 1822, 550.— Bp., Consp. At. 1850, 342.— Woodh., Sitgr. Eep. 

 1853, 65.— Cass., 111. 1855, 247.— Cab., J. f. 0. 1856, 4 (Cuba).— Nkwb., P. R. R. 

 Ecp. vi, 1857, 78.— Brew., N. Am. Ool. 1857, 105, pi. 4, f. 49.— Bd., B. N. A. 1858, 

 313; Eev. 1865, 319.-Hbei!m., P. E. E. Eep. x, 1859, pt. vi, 36.— Gdndl., J. f. 

 0. 1861 (330).— Hayd., Eep. 1862, 162.— March, Pr. PMla. Acad. 1863, 297 (Ja- 

 maica).— Ball & Bann., Tr. Chic. Acad, i, 1869, 280 (Alaska).— CouES, Pr. 

 Phila. Acad. 1866, 72 (Arizoua).— Coop., B. Cal. i, 1870, 110 (California).— Allen, 

 Bull. M. C. Z. ii, 1871, 269 (Florida, in winter) ; iii, 1872, 176.— Trippe, Pr. Boat. 

 See. 1872, 235.— Aiken, ihid. 198.— Merr., U. S. Geol. Surv. Ter. 1872, 677.— 

 Snow, B. Kana. 1873, 5. — Coues, Key, 1872, 114 ; and of nearly aU late writers. ■) i (, - 



Sirundo cinerea, Vieill., Nout. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xiv, 1817, 526. ^ 



Cotyle fluviatilis et miarorkynchos, Beehm, Vog. Deutsohl. i, 142, 143. 



ndb. — Europe. The whole of North America. Bermudas. Cuba. Jamaica. Breeds 

 throughout the greater part of its North American range. Winters from the sonthern 

 coast southward. Not common on the Pacific side. Brazil {Pele., Orn. Braz. i, 18. 



lAst of specimens. 



lAeutenant Warren's Expedition. — 5209-10, Yellowstone. 

 Later Expeditions. — 61664, Utah. 



Notable as one of the few species of Oscines, American and European specimens of 

 which are absolntely identical. 



Ascending the Missouri in the spring of 1864, 1 saw thousands of these 

 birds along the banks, which were, in suitable places, riddled with their 

 holes. Again, in the fall of 1872, higher up the river, I observed multi- 

 tudes of their deserted nests, often in the soft ground capping the bluffs 

 ■where, a little below, the bottle-shaped nests of the Oliflf Swallows were 

 fastened in great masses. 



STELGID0PTE:$TX SBREIPBNNIS, (And.) Bd. 



Bongli-winged Swallow. 



Hirnndo serripennis, AuD., Orn. Biog. iv, 1838, 593 ; Syn. 1839, 37 ; B. A. i, 1840, 193, pi. 51. 



Cotyle serripennis, Bp., Consp., Av. i, 1850, 342.— Cass., 111. i, 1855, 247.— Brew., N. A. 

 061. i, 1857, 106, pi. 4, f. 50.— Bd., B. N. A. 1858, 313.— Hbeem., P. E. E. Eep. x, 

 1859, pt. vi, 36. — Kenn., ibid. pt. iv, 24. — Newb., ibid, vi, 1857, 79. — Coop. & 

 Suck., N. H. Wash. Ter. 1860, 186.— Sol., Cat. A. B. 1862, 41 ; (?) P. Z. S. 1856, 

 285 (Cordova) ; (?) 1859, 364 (Jalapa)— (?) Sol. & Salv., Ibis, i, 1859, 13 (Gua- 

 temala), 126.— (?) Owen, Ibis, iii, 1861, 61 (Guatemala)— Lord, Pr. Roy. Arty. 

 Inst, iv, 1864, 116 (British Columbia).— Coop., Pr. Cal. Acad. 1870, 75 ; B. Cal. 

 1870, 110.— Allen, Bull. M. C. Z. iii, 1872, 176 (Kansas and Utah).— Snow, 

 B. Kans. 1873, 5 (common). 



Stelgidopteryx serripennis, Bd., Rev. 1865, 316. — Codes, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1666, 72 (Arizona) : 

 Key, 1872, 114. ' 



Hab. — United States, from Atlantic to Pacific, excepting perhaps New England. 

 British Columbia. South into Mexico ( ? to Guatemala : compare C. fulvipennis, Sol., 

 P. Z. S. 1859, 364; Ibis, 1860, 31). 



Not obtained by any of the Expeditions. 



It appears to me improbable that th&Cotyle fulvipennis, based on a young bird, is dis- 

 tinct from the present species. My Arizona birds-of-the-year, as described (I. c), seem 

 to answer the description oi fulvipennis, though they have subsequently been found 

 inseparable from serripennis. It would not be surprising, indeed, if it proved necessary 

 to unite the several supposed species described from Central and South America, and 

 Mexico. The ascribed characters seem very slight, and of a kind readily accounted 

 for by differences in sex, age, and season of the specimens examined, with, of course, 

 discrepaucies due to climatic influences. A series will probably be established of sev- 

 eral geographical races. 



This species was not noticed by any of the Expeditions, but its known 

 range includes the Missouri region., ^Jt is sUted to be common in Kan- 

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