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Mingan islands) ; Auk, xiv, 1897, 408 (Smiths I. and King William County, 

 Virginia, breeding).— Clakke (W. E.), Auk, vii, 1890, 322 (Fort Churchill, 

 Hudson Bay).— DwiGHT, Auk, x, 1893, 12 (Prince Edward I., breeding).— 

 Nehkling, Our Native Birds, etc., i, 1893, 353, pi. 18, fig. 6.— Shakpe and 

 Wyatt, Mon. Hirund., 1894, 155, 189, pi. 24.— "Wayue, Auk, xii, 1895, 184 

 (coast South Carolina, Jan.).— Gmnnell, Auk, xv, 1898, 129 (Sitka, Alaska 

 breeding).— Childs, Auk, xvii, 1900, 67 (Bamegat, New Jersey; "millions" 

 passmg in Sept.)-.— Beewstbk, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xU, 1902, 166 (occur- 

 rence in Cape district of Lower California requires confirmation!). 



[Tachydneta] bicolor CouES, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 113. 



Tachycinetes bicolor Scott (W. E. D.), Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 223 (Long 

 Beach, New Jersey, breeding) . 



Petrochelidon bicolor Cassin, Cat. Hirund. Mus. Philad. Acad., 1853, 4,— Sclatee, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 201 (San Soai, Mexico); 1859, 364 (Jalapa, 

 Vera Cruz) ; Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 40.— Sclatbk and Saltin, Ibis, 1859, 13 

 (Guatemala).— Beewee, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 306 (Cuba). 



Iridoprocne bicolor CouBS, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 160.— Deew, Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 88, 115 (San Juan Co., Colorado, breeding).— Meeeiam, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 235 (Point de Monts, Quebec, breeding). 



Jlridoprome} bicolor Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 322. 



Hirundo viridis Wilson, Am. Orn., v, 1812, 49, pi. 38, flg. 3.— De Witt Clinton, 

 Ann. Lye. N. Y., i, 1824, 159.— Audubon, Ann. Lye. N. Y., i, 1824, 167.— 

 Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad., iv, 1825, 257. 



Hirlundd] viridis BoiE, Isis, 1826, 971; 1828, 316. 



Hirundo leucogaster Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., x, 1817, 106 (based on H. 

 viridis Wilson). 



IHirundo} leucogastra BoiE, Isis, 1844, 171. 



ifirando prasina Lichtenstein, Preis-Verz. Mex. Vog., 1831, 2 (Mexico); Journ. 

 fiir Orn., 1863, 58. 



Hirundo bicolor, var. vespertina Coopee, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Feb. 1876, 91 (Cali- 

 fornia); Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., ii, 1880, 246. 



, IRIDOPROCNE ALBILINEA (Lawrence). 



MANGROVE SWALLOW, 



Adults {sexes aUke). — Pileum, auricular region, hindneck, sides of 

 neck, back, scapulars, and lesser wing-coverts uniform greenish steel 

 blue or bluish green; rump white or grayish white, the feathers 

 usually with dusky shaft-lines; upper tail-coverts dusky, more or less 

 strongly glossed with bluish green, and often margined with white or 

 pale grayish; wing-coverts black, the middle coverts margined with 

 greenish steel blue or steel green ; rest of wings, and tail, dull black or 

 dusky, faintly glossed with greenish; tertials broadly margined termi- 

 nally and for most of the length of outer web with white; '^ a white line, 

 more or less distinct, on each side of forehead, above upper margin of 

 lores; malar region and entire under parts white, the chest usually 

 faintly shaded with pale grayish and sometimes indistinctly and very 

 narrowly streaked with darker; under wing-coverts and axillars white 



« These white edgings always present m this species unless the plumage is greatly 

 abraded. 



