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Mon. Hirund., 1894, 635, 653, part, pi. 125, upper flg. only (= young).— 

 EiCHMOND and Knowlton, Auk, xi, 1894, 308 (Gallatin Valley, Montana, 

 Aug.). — McIlweaith, Birds Ontario, 1894, 341 (Hamilton, breeding). — 

 Porter, Auk, xii, 1895, 86 (Stamford, Connecticut, breeding). — Wayne, 

 Auk, xii, 1895, 184 (coast South Carolina, Dec. 22, 1894). — Faxon, Auk, xii, 

 1895, 392 (Berkshire Co., Massachusetts, breeding). — ^TJleey and Wallace, 

 Proc. Ind. Ac. Sci., 1895, 155 (Wabash, Indiana).— Chubb, Auk, xiv, 1897, 

 408 (Greene and Ulster counties. New York, breeding). — Howe, Auk, xvii, 



1900, 389 (near Gales Ferry, Connecticut, breeding). — Hill, Auk, xix, 1902, 

 93 (New London, White B. Junction, Gales Ferry, near Norwich, Poquo- 

 nock, etc., Connecticut, breeding). — Eathbun (S. F. ), Auk, xix, 1902, 138 

 (Seattle, Washington, breeding). 



{Stelgidopteryx} serripennis Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 114. — Sclater and 



Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 15. 

 Stelgidopteryx ruficoUis serripennis Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, ii, July 31, 



1901, 60 (descr. ; crit. ). — Grinnell (J.), Pacific Coast Avifauna, no. 3, 



1902, 61. 



Cotyle fulvipennis Sclater, Proc. Zool. 8oc. Lond., 1859, 364 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz, 

 Mexico; coll. P. L. Sclater; = young); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 41 (Jalapa). 



[CotUel fulvipennis Gs AY, Hand-list, i, 1869, 73, no. 869. 



Stelgidopteryx fulvipennis Baird, Eeview Am. Birds, May, 1865, 316, part (Orizaba 

 and Jalapa, Vera Cruz). — Shmichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 547 

 (Vera Cruz). — Fbrrari-Perbz, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 139 (Jalapa, 

 Vera Cruz) . 



[Stelgidopteryx'] fulvipennis Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 15. 



Stelgidopteryx ruficoUis fulvipennis Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, ii, July 

 31, 1901, 59, part (s. Mexico). 



(?) Cotyle flavigastra (not of Gray) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 212 

 (Orizaba, Vera Cruz). 



STELGIDOPTERYX RIDGWAYI Nelson. 

 TUCATAN ROUGH-WINGED SWALLOW, 



Similar to S. serripennis, but decidedly larger, very much darker 

 above, and longest under tail-coverts with the exposed portion dusky 

 or blackish. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Above dark grayish brown or sooty (very much 

 darker than in S. serripennis) approaching clove brown on pileum, 

 the remiges and rectrices sooty blackish; chin and throat pale brown- 

 ish gray or grayish white; chest, sides of .breast, sides, flanks, axillars, 

 and under wing-coverts deeper brownish gray (darker than in S. ser- 

 ripennis) ; rest of under parts white, the exposed portion of two longest 

 under tail-coverts abruptly dark sooty or sooty blackish; bill black; 

 legs and feet dark brown color or brownish black. 



Taung. — Similar to adults, but wing-coverts tipped and tertials 

 broadly margined with dull rusty or cinnamon, and sides of throat and 

 median portion of chest light cinnamon or dull cinnamon-buff, the 

 sides and flanks tinged with the same." 



« Described from a Guatemalan specimen in the collection of the Kent Scientific 

 Institute, Grand Eapids, Michigan. A specimen from Merida, Yucatan, in the 

 National Museum collection (no. 39264, A. Schott), is very similar. 



