80 ;bulletin 5o, tjwited states national museum. 



sius, Wirb. Eur., 1840, 196.— Yabrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, ii, 1843, 213.— 

 1854, pi. 57; Dier. Nederl. Vog., 1861, pi. 6, fig. 4.— Sundevall, Sv. Fogl., 

 KjiEKBOLLiNG, Damn. Fugle, 1852, pi. 14, fig. 4.— Schlegel, Vog. Nederl, 

 1856, pi. 17, fig. 5. — Jerdon, Birds India, i, 1862, 157. — Degland and Gekbe, 

 Orn. Eur., i, 1867, 587.— Heuglin, Orn. N. O.-Afr., i, 1869, 150; iv, App., 

 1873, p. Iv.— GoDMAN, Azores, 1870, 341.— Feitsch, Vog. Eur., 1870, pi. 2, 

 fig. 4. — FiNSCH and Hartlaub, Vog. Ostafr., 1870, 134. — Salvador:, Faun. 

 Ital., TJcc, 1871, 51.— Shaepe, Oat. Birds Africa, 1871, 45; Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., X, 1885, 127.— Harting, Handb. Brit. Birds, 1872, 35.— Newton, ed. 

 Yarrell's Hist. Brit. Birds, ii, 1880, 340.— Giglioli, Elench. Ucc. Ital., 1881, 

 64.— Gates, Birds Brit. Burma, i, 1883, 302, part.— Sebbohm, Hist. Brit. 

 Birds, ii, 1883, 171, pi. 17 (eggs).— Sharpe and Layaed, Birds South Afr., 

 1884, 362. 



Cecropis rustica Lesson, Compl. Buffonj viii, 1837, 498. 



CheJidini rustica Stejnbqee, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1882, 31. 



Ilirundo domcsiica Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso- Asiat. , i, 1826, 528, part. 



Chelidon proaie Forster, Synop. Gat. Brit. Birds, etc., 1817, 17, 55. 



Cecropis pagorum Brehm (0. L.), Vog. Deutschl., 1831, 138; Naumannia, 1855, 

 271. 



Cecropis stabulorum Beehm (C. L.) Naumannia, 1855, 271. 



Hirundo cahirica (not of Lichtenstein) Haetlaub, Orn. W. Afr., 1857, 26. — 

 LocHE, Expl. Sci. Alg^r., Ois., ii, 1867, 67. 



Hirundo boissoneauti (not of Temminck) Lindermayer, Vog. Griechenl., 1860, 

 119. 



HIRUNDO ERYTHROGASTRA Boddaert. 



AMERICAN BARN SWALIOW. 



Similar to II. rustica, but smaller, more intensely colored on under 

 parts, and without black band across chest. 



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

 dai'k steel blue or violaceous steel blue; wings and tail dusky, faintly 

 glossed with greenish, the middle wing-coverts and tertials broadly 

 margined with glossy steel blue, the greater coverts and tertials more 

 or less strongly glossed with the same; inner web of rectrices (except 

 middle pair) with a conspicuous white spot (sometimes tinged with 

 vinaceous-cinnamon or vinaceous-buff) ; malar region, chin, throat, and 

 chest chestnut or deep cinnamon-rufous, the chest margined lateral!}' 

 by an extension of the glossy dark steel blue from sides of the neck, 

 these two lateral patches sometimes connected, narrowly, and thus 

 forming a nearly complete collar; rest of under parts pale cinnamon- 

 rufous, or intermediate between cinnamon -rufous and vinaceous- 

 cinnamon — occasionally much paler, rarely nearly white; bill black; 

 iris brown; legs and feet dusky horn color or blackish; length (skins), 

 153-185 (166.8); wing, 113-121:' (118.2); tail, 77-105 (89.1); exposed 

 culmen, 7-9 (7.9); width of bill at frontal antise, 6-7 (6.5); tarsus, 

 10.5-11.5 (10.5); middle toe, 11.5-13 (12). « 



Advlt fiviale. — Similar to the adult male and often not distinguish- 

 able, but usually a little smaller and under parts a little paler; length' 



"Twenty-four specimens. 



