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1890, 96 (record of mortality in Connecticut in June, 1888). — Macfaelane, 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiv, 1891, 443 (Anderson E., Mackenzie, breeding). — 



DwiQHT, Auk, X, 1893, 12 (Prince Edwards I., breeding). — Nehkling, Out 



Native Birds, etc., i, 1893, 358. 

 Cllivicola} riparia Ridqway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 463. 

 Ii[iparia'] riparia Jordan, Man. Vertebr. E. U. S., 4th ed., 1884, 72. 

 Riparia riparia American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xix, July, 



1902, 825.— Brewster, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool.', xli, 1902, 170 (San Jos6 del 



Cabo, Lower California, Sept. ) . 

 Riparia europasa Forstbk, Synopt. Cat. Brit. Birds, 1817, 17. 

 Clivicola europea Foester, Synopt. Cat. Brit. Birds, 1817, 55. 

 Hirundo cinerea (not of Latham) Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xiv, 1817, 



526. 

 Clivicola riparia cinerea Stejnegee, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 29, 1885, 268, in 



text. 

 Coiyle flumaiilis Beehm, Vog. Deutsohl., 1831, 142. 

 Coiyle microrhynchos Beehm, Vog. Deutschl., 1831, 143. 

 Hirlundol riparia americana (not Hirundo americana Maximilian, Journ. fur 



Orn., 1858, 101 (upper Missouri P.). 

 CUmcola riparia maximiliani Stejneger, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 29, 1885, 378, 



footnote (to replace Hirundo cinerea Vieillot, preoccupied). 



Genus HIRUNDO Linnaeus. 



Hirundo LiNNiEus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 191. (Type, as fixed by Schaeffer, «■ 



H. rustica Linn^us. ) 

 Chelidon Fohstek, Synop. Cat. Brit. Birds, 1817, 17. (Type, C. proone ForBter, = ' 



Hirundo rustica Linnseua. ) 

 Cecropis BoiB, Isis, 1826, 971. (Type, Hirundo capenm Gmelin, = S. cuauMaia 



Boddaert. ) 

 "Aeropis Eeid[ee] and Hahn, 1835." (Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 69.) 

 lAllia BoiE, Isis, 1844, 174, footnote; Journ. fiir Om., vi, Sept., 1858, 364. (Type, 



Hirundo erytRropygia Sykes.) 

 Hypurolepis Gould, Birds of Asia, i, pt. xx, 1868, pi. 32. (Type, H. domicola. 



Gould, = Hirundo javanica Sparrman. ) 

 Hypurolepsis (emendation) Sundevall, Met. Nat. Av. Disp. Tent., 1872, 52. 

 Herse (not of Oken, 1815) Gray, List Gen. Birds, 1841, 11. (Type, Hirundo 



taitensis Lesson, = H. tahitica Gmelin. ) 



Small to rather large Hirundinidse with nostrils opening laterally 

 and overhung by a distinct membraneous operculum, the frontal 

 feathers not extending forward as far as anterior end of nostrils; tar- 

 sus entirely unfeathered except at extreme upper portion, hind claw 

 shorter than the digit; tail two-thirds as long as wing, or longer, and 

 forked for more than one-third its length (or else * inner webs of rec- 

 trices with a white spot), the upper parts with chestnut or rufous on 

 either forehead or rump (or both), the under parts either partly chest- 



aElem. Orn., 1774, pi. 40; see Eeichenow, Journ. fiir Orn., 1889, 187; Allen, Bull. 

 Am. Mus. N. H., iii, 1891, 346; Coues, Auk, xv, 1898, 271. 



S In H. javanica Sparrman, which except only as to the short and slightly forked 

 tail, is in every other respect a typical Hirundo. 



