ATTICOEA. 345 



560. Atticora fasciata. 

 White-banded Swallow. 



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



Atticora fasciata Cab. in Schomb. Eeis. Guian. iii. p. 672, 1848 ; Salvin, 

 Ibi's, 1885, p. 205 (Eoraima, 3500 ft.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 X. pp. 183, 634, 1885 (Eiver Atapurow, Merumg Mts.); Beebe, Our 

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

 Creek, Aremu Eiver, Abary Savannas) ; Braboume & Chubb, B. S. 

 Amer. i. p. 327, fio. 3337, 1912. 



Adult' male. Glossy steel blue-black both above and belovir ; 

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

 a wide 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 young bird, collected by Mr. McConnell on the Kurubung 

 River during his expedition to Mount Eoraima 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 British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Ravge in British Guiana Kurubung River {Mc Connell collection) ; 

 Mount Rbraima, 3500 ft., Kamarang River, Merume Mountains 

 (Vf'hitely) ; Hoorie River, Aremu River, Abary Savannas (Beebe) 



Extralimital Range. Cayenne ( Gmelin), Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, 

 Bolivia. 



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

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

 the Barima and Barama Rivers. It was also fond of perching on 

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

 unknown to him. 



The following notes have been copied from Beebe (Our Search 

 for a Wilderness) : — 



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

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



