BIBDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 79 



HIRUNDO RUSTICA Linnaus. 

 ETTROPEAN CHIHrNEY SWALLOW. 



Adult male. — Forehead (broadly) chestnut; rest of upper parts 

 glosay dark steel blue, usually tinged with violet, especially on upper 

 tail-coverts; wings and tail dusky, faintly glossed with greenish, the 

 wing-coverts and tertials margined with steel blue; inner webs of 

 rectrices (except middle pair) with a large spot of white; chin and 

 throat chestnut; a broad band of glossy blue-black across chest, some 

 of the feathers occasionally tipped with chestnut; rest of under parts 

 dull pinkish buff or pale cinnamon-buff, deepest on crissum, where 

 sometimes almost vinaceous-cinnamon; bill black; iris brown; legs 

 and feet dark horn color or blackish; length (skins), 170-203 (178.4); 

 wing, 121-124.5 (123.1); tail, 87-117 (99.3); exposed culmen, 7.5-8 

 (7.8); width of bill at frontal antise, 6-6.5 (6.1); tarsus, 10.5-12 (11.2); 

 middle toe, 11-12.5 (11.9). « 



Advlt female. — Similar to the adult male and sometimes not distin- 

 guishable, but usually smaller and with under parts of body decidedly 

 paler (dull white or buffy white) ; length (skins), 158-168 (161.5) ; wing, 

 119-123 (120.8); tail, 79-89 (85); exposed culmen, 7-8 (7.8); width of 

 bill at frontal antise, 5.5-6.5 (6.1); tarsus, 11; middle toe, 12-12.5 

 (12. 2). » 



Young. — Much duller in color than adults; pileum and sides of 

 head black or sooty black, slightly glossed with greenish steel blue, 

 the forehead dull brown; steel blue gloss of back, rump, etc., less 

 bright and more greenish; chin and throat vinaceous-cinnamon, 

 cinnamon-buff or pchraceous-buff; jugular band sooty blackish, with- 

 out gloss; rest of under parts varying from dull white to pinkish 

 buff. 



Palsearctic Region, except extreme eastern portion; south in winter 

 to India, China, Burma, Malay Peninsula, and greater part of Africa; 

 accidental, during migration, on American side of the middle 

 Atlantic.'' 



[Hirundo] rustica Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 191 (based on Fauna Suc- 

 cica, p. 244); ed. 12, i, 1766, 344.— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1788, 1015. 



Hirwndo rustica Tbmminck, Man. d'Orn., 1815, 265; ed. 2, i, 1820, 427. — Eoux, 

 Orn. Prov., 1825, pi. 141.— Werner, Atlas, Chelidones, 1827, pi. 1.— Nau- 

 MANN, Vog. Deutschl., vi, 1833, 7, pi. 145, fig. 1; Anhang, xiii, 1860, pi. 383, 

 fig. 2.— Gould, Birds Europe, ii, 1837, pi. 54; Birds Gt. Brit., ii, 1873, pi. 

 5. — Macgillivray, Hist. Brit. Birds, iii, 1840, 558. — Keyserling and Bla- 



a Seven specimens. 



* Five specimens. 



«A specimen in the U. S. National Museum collection (no. 77380) is labeled as 

 having been "taken during voyage from Norfolk to Bio de Janeiro by Edwd. 

 Pgnnelly." 



